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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Announcing git-reparent
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:16:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130114071608.GL3125@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHREChhnf44CprHnS=z9KO5aOkfDPSG6Xb2GU=Kvaz38eTgbUg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mark,

Mark Lodato wrote:

> Create a new commit object that has the same tree and commit message as HEAD
> but with a different set of parents.  If ``--no-reset`` is given, the full
> object id of this commit is printed and the program exits

I've been wishing for something like this for a long time.  I used to
fake it using "cat-file commit", sed, and "hash-object -w" when
stitching together poorly imported history using "git replace".

Thanks for writing it.

Ciao,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14  6:15 Announcing git-reparent Mark Lodato
2013-01-14  7:16 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-01-14  8:03   ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-01-14 20:08     ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-14 20:28     ` Mark Lodato
2013-01-14  8:05   ` Junio C Hamano

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