From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-filter-branch
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:36:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46630A31.5090104@midwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706031228.58779.jnareb@gmail.com>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> By the way, why did you change name to git-filter-branch, instead of
> leaving it [almost] as is, i.e. git-rewritehist. Or if you wanted to
> emphasize that it rewrites only one branch at a time, git-rewrite-branch?
>
One argument against the name change is that one could easily imagine
this tool being extended in the future to filter all branches rather
than just one. For example, the "get rid of copyrighted file X in my
repository" use case is a bit of a pain right now using
cg-admin-rewritehist if the file was introduced early in the history of
a large repo; in that scenario you want to be able to say, "filter this
file out of my entire repo" without particularly caring which branches
it appeared in (and without losing any of the branch structure in your
history.)
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-03 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-03 0:31 [PATCH] Add git-filter-branch Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-03 0:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-03 0:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-03 10:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-03 18:36 ` Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-06-03 23:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-05 10:18 ` Jonas Fonseca
2007-06-05 10:26 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-05 10:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-05 10:34 ` Jonas Fonseca
2007-06-05 13:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-06 15:24 ` [PATCH] filter-branch: use $(($i+1)) instead of $((i+1)) Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-04 7:18 ` [PATCH] Add git-filter-branch Johannes Sixt
2007-06-04 7:59 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-04 16:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-04 16:34 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-04 17:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-05 7:01 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-05 15:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-06 7:43 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-06 8:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-06 15:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-06 15:22 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-06-06 17:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-06 15:36 ` [PATCH] filter-branch: also don't fail in map() if a commit cannot be mapped Johannes Sixt
2007-06-06 17:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-06 18:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Sixt
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