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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git rebase -i without altering the committer date
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 07:23:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571863CE.6090002@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ega0eyvy.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

Am 20.04.2016 um 23:47 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'd like to insert a commit between two commits without changing
>> the committer date or author date of that commit or the subsequent
>> commits.
>
> The easiest way to implement that is to add a graft to redirect the
> parent of the second commit to the inserted commit, then use git
> filter-branch to make the graft permanent.

This only inserts a new project state, but does not propagate the 
changes brought in by the new commit to the subsequent commits. This 
propagation of changes could also be done with filter-branch, but it may 
be difficult depending on circumstances.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-21  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-20 20:24 git rebase -i without altering the committer date Shaun Jackman
2016-04-20 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-20 21:15   ` Shaun Jackman
2016-04-20 21:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-21  5:23   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2016-04-21  7:17     ` Johannes Schindelin

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