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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Recording merges after repo conversion
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:03:59 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Johan Herland wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > All this does not change the fact that installing a graft and 'git gc 
> > --prune'ing gets rid of the old history.  D'oh.
> 
> So will rebasing and --prune'ing, or pulling a rebased branch and 
> --prune'ing. Git already gives you _plenty_ of different ropes to hang 
> yourself with. The question is whether adding yet another one is worth 
> it.

But that is not the question here.  The question here is: are users 
allowed to hang _others_?  I say: no.

Ciao,
Dscho