From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Bash Subject: Re: clone breaks replace Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:15:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1351312.105443.1294434905621.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> References: <20110107205103.GC4629@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder , Phillip Susi To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 07 22:15:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PbJet-0006UI-7a for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:15:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753606Ab1AGVPU (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:15:20 -0500 Received: from hq.genarts.com ([173.9.65.1]:2191 "HELO mail.hq.genarts.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753582Ab1AGVPS (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:15:18 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED7B1E2604D; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:15:11 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.hq.genarts.com Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.hq.genarts.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WuRnOsHQuqId; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:15:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com (mail.hq.genarts.com [10.102.202.62]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC011E2604C; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:15:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20110107205103.GC4629@burratino> X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.10_GA_2692 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Mac)/6.0.10_GA_2692) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Nieder" > To: "Phillip Susi" > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Christian Couder" > Sent: Friday, January 7, 2011 3:51:03 PM > Subject: Re: clone breaks replace > Phillip Susi wrote: > > > Isn't the whole purpose of using replace to avoid having to use > > filter-branch, which throws out all of the existing commit records, > > and creates an entirely new commit chain that is slightly modified? > > No. What documentation suggested that? Maybe it can be fixed. I'll chime in here as another person who read the ProGit blog entry on git-replace [1] and came to the same conclusion Phillip (and I'm guessing others) did. OTOH when I attempted to read the actual git-replace manpage, I got completely lost, so I retained my (apparently incorrect) understanding from ProGit. Thanks, Stephen [1] http://progit.org/2010/03/17/replace.html