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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing git-reparent
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:16:08 -0800
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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