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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] gitk: add "--no-replace-objects" option
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:09:23 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091213230923.GB8135@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091212045240.4249.66874.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 05:52:39AM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:

> Replace refs are useful to change some git objects after they
> have started to be shared between different repositories. One
> might want to ignore them to see the original state, and
> "--no-replace-objects" option can be used from the command
> line to do so.
> 
> This option simply sets the GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS environment
> variable, and that is enough to make gitk ignore replace refs.
> 
> The GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS is set to "1" instead of "" as it is
> safer on some platforms, thanks to Johannes Sixt and Michael J
> Gruber.
> 
> Tested-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Thanks, applied.

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-13 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-12  4:52 [PATCH RESEND] gitk: add "--no-replace-objects" option Christian Couder
2009-12-13 23:09 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2009-12-27 17:26   ` Christian Couder

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