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From: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v0] fast-import: Add drop command
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:22:08 +0100
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't understand why it's a bad thing that fast-import
> will find the old tree on disk, won't it just be gc-ed if it is no
> longer used?

No, because fast-import actively checks this to make sure the frontend
script did not do anything wrong during the import. I think the check
makes sense and may help debugging a corner case the frontend script
does not support. So, using "--force" is also not a solution because it
ignores everything and not only the specific commits I want to leave
behind.

Vitor