From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
To: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add git-rewrite-commits
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:15:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070708181557.GL1528MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46912726.5080807@midwinter.com>
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:04:22AM -0700, Steven Grimm wrote:
> This command points us in the direction of a "remove/rename this file in
> history" feature that doesn't require forking tens of thousands of child
> processes on a repo with lots of history. For that alone I think it's
> worthwhile, even though it's not there yet; that will never happen with
> a shell script. And yeah, that's not a frequent operation, but it's sure
> nice when even the infrequent operations are lightning fast.
I couldn't come up with a clean interface to specify removes/renames
on the command line (other than copying the external command idea from
cg-admin-rewritehist), but this is one of the operations I have to
perform on the project I'm cleaning up, so if you have any suggestions,
I'd be interested to hear them.
skimo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-08 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-08 16:23 [PATCH 0/4] Add git-rewrite-commits skimo
2007-07-08 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] export get_short_sha1 skimo
2007-07-08 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] export add_ref_decoration skimo
2007-07-08 16:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] revision: mark commits that didn't match a pattern for later use skimo
2007-07-08 16:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add git-rewrite-commits skimo
2007-07-08 16:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-08 17:30 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-08 18:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-08 19:11 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-08 18:04 ` Steven Grimm
2007-07-08 18:15 ` Sven Verdoolaege [this message]
2007-07-08 18:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-08 21:10 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-09 9:01 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-07-09 9:48 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-09 11:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-08 23:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-09 9:47 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-09 12:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-09 13:49 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-09 14:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-09 14:42 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-09 14:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-09 12:36 ` Jeff King
2007-07-09 13:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
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