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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:03:03 +0100
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I wrote:
>
> Anyway it looks to me that this kind of problem could be avoided if one
> could "replace" some commits only when bisecting. In this case what could
> be done is that one could "replace" the commit where btrfs is merged with
> one commit that cuts off the btrfs history.

By the way, it possible right now to cut off the btrfs history in one's own 
repository using a graft. One don't need to wait for me to finish the 
replace stuff I am slowly working on. But on the other hand it will have 
all the restrictions of the current graft mechanism.

Regards,
Christian.