Re: RFC: grafts generalised

["Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>]

Mike Hommey wrote:
>> These edits are numerous and spread over many months, so the typical 
>> history fixup-sessions involve periods where you make 30 random
>> historicaledits per hour (which need to be viewed and checked every time
>> immediately after making the change).  And say once every 4 months, you
>> run it through git filter-branch to cast everything into stone.  A
>> typical git filter-branch run takes 15 minutes on a repository this
>> size.

>I think the point was more about making a tool to do exactly what you
>want, based on the new git sequencer. Note that git filter-branch could
>also be rewritten to use the sequencer.

As far as I understood it, the new git sequencer rewrites history
proper.  That is timeconsuming by definition, and thus it is *not*
possible to make a tool based on the sequencer that supports the desired
iterative-history-rewrite workflow.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

You are confused; but this is your normal state.