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From: "Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: grafts generalised
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:58:20 +0400
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> However, if you want more than just ability to edit commits in a text
> file but also inspect changes using normal git commands and gitk (as it
> is possible with grafts), it will require changes to the git core, which,
> perhaps, not difficult to implement using pretend_sha1_file(), but I am
> not sure that everyone will welcome that...

On second thought, it may be not necessary. You can extract an old commit
object, edit it, put it into Git with a new SHA1, and then use the graft file to
replace all references from an old to a new one. And you will be able to see
changes immediately in gitk.

Dmitry