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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva@fsfla.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rebase parents, or tracking upstream but removing non-distributable bits
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:58:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101230205847.GA29012@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ord3ojb0yy.fsf@livre.localdomain>

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> Now, it looks like I might be able to pull from upstream if I maintain
> manually a graft file that named each upstream commit as an additional
> parent of the corresponding local rebase commit that brought it into my
> rewritten tree.  Workable, maybe, but this wouldn't help third parties
> that used my public repository.

Have you looked into "git replace"?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-30 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-30 17:54 rebase parents, or tracking upstream but removing non-distributable bits Alexandre Oliva
2010-12-30 20:58 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-30 22:32   ` Alexandre Oliva
2010-12-30 23:14     ` Jakub Narebski
2011-01-05 11:44       ` Alexandre Oliva
2010-12-30 22:52 ` Yann Dirson
2010-12-30 22:58 ` Alexandre Erwin Ittner

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