From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Cc: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: grafts generalised
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:02:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486C6B8E.5040202@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080702181021.GD16235@cuci.nl>
Stephen R. van den Berg schrieb:
> Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hmmmm, interesting thought. That just might solve my problem.
I don't think it would.
You want to apply a patch through a part of the history. To do that, it is
not sufficient to apply the patch to only one commit/tree and then fake
parenthood of its child commits. You still need to apply the patch to all
children.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 14:35 RFC: grafts generalised Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-02 16:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-02 16:43 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-07-02 17:42 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-02 18:25 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-02 18:34 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-07-02 19:31 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-02 19:36 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-02 20:42 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-02 23:46 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-03 6:05 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-02 18:37 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-07 6:28 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-07-07 6:59 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-02 17:32 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-03 0:21 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-03 7:11 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-04 0:43 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-02 17:19 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-02 17:58 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-02 18:10 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-02 18:33 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-02 20:39 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-02 21:18 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-02 21:28 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-02 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-02 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-03 0:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-03 6:02 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-07-03 7:30 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-03 7:42 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-03 9:37 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-02 17:59 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-03 0:13 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-03 0:16 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-03 0:28 ` Junio C Hamano
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