From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through the history Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:45:40 -0800 Message-ID: <7vll01ut6j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <436E85DA.1080904@michonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 07 02:47:42 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYw4v-00037B-Hp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:45:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932401AbVKGBpm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:45:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932402AbVKGBpm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:45:42 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27]:18325 "EHLO fed1rmmtao12.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932401AbVKGBpm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:45:42 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051107014444.SIAQ2059.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:44:44 -0500 To: Ryan Anderson In-Reply-To: <436E85DA.1080904@michonline.com> (Ryan Anderson's message of "Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:38:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ryan Anderson writes: > I've written a tool that will take a single commit, add it as a parent > of another commit, and recreate the history above that second commit in > a fully compatible manner. I think the procedure is reproducible, which is a very nice property to have for a tool like this, but I am not sure what you mean by "in a fully compatible manner". What are you compatible with? Also another rhetorical, tongue-in-cheek question. What is your plan to ripple the graft through to update signed tags? ;-)