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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 09:42:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486C82F5.6080405@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080703073041.GA28566@cuci.nl>

Stephen R. van den Berg schrieb:
> Actually, ripple-through changes are rare.  In the current project it
> seems I need exactly one, but it's buried deep in the past (sadly).
> The reason why I need it, is to make sure that git-bisect will work for
> any revision in the past (i.e. the tree contained/contains some
> too-clever-for-their-own-good $Revision$-expansion dependencies)

But you do know that you don't need to apply the change *now*; you can
apply it at bisect-time? Unless you expect you or your mere mortal
coworkers are going to do dozens of bisects into that part of the history,
I wouldn't change history *like*this*. But of course, I don't understand
the circumstances enough, so... just my 2 cents.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-03  8:27 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
2008-07-03  7:30         ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-03  7:42           ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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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