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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: vcs-svn and firends
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Dmitry Ivankov wrote:

> A very quick view suggests that they could be reorganized, if it's okay.
> For example:
> - squash optifying REPORT_FILENO with it's addition.
> - drop changes to repo_tree.c that were later erased
> ...I bet there are more
>
> Does it make sense or we should better not rewrite the history?

All else being equal, it is better not to rewrite history, especially
when there are multiple series building on a commit (as is the case
for most commits in the

 git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn.git svn-fe

branch, just like Junio's "master" branch).

Cheers,
Jonathan