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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of git-filter-branch rev-list specification.
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:49:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4743E309.4090707@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ikc3gzc.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth schrieb:
> +The filters can modify the tree content stored in each commit,
> +(e.g. removing a file or running a perl rewrite on all files), or the
> +associated information about each commit, (commit message, author,
> +parent, etc.). Any information not affected by a filter (including
> +original commit times or merge information) will be preserved. If you
> +specify no filters, the commits will be recommitted without any
> +changes.

"... will be recommitted without any changes as long as no grafted parents 
are encountered. Any grafted parents will be written into the commits even 
if no filters are specified."

-- Hannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-21  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20 18:32 [PATCH] Improve documentation of git-filter-branch rev-list specification Carl Worth
2007-11-20 19:24 ` Ideas for improving the filter-branch workflow Carl Worth
2007-11-20 22:28 ` [PATCH] Improve documentation of git-filter-branch rev-list specification Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-21  7:49 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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