Re: [QUESTION] about .git/info/grafts file

[Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Could anybody shed some light there ? It would be very nice.

Thanks
                  Franck

2006/1/17, Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering why the "grafts" files is not involved during
> push/pull/clone operations ?
>
> Another question regarding grafting use case. Let's say I have my
> origin branch looks like:
>
>                origin ---0---1---<snip>---300 000---300 001---300 002
>
> Let's say that the 300 000th commit is where I started my work by using:
>
>                $ git-checkout -b master <300 000 shaid>
>
> I do some work on master branch and get the following
>
>                                                  a---b---c---d master
>                                                 /
>                origin ---0---1---...---300,000---300,001---300,002
>
> Now, I would like to make my own public repository based on my work
> but before pushing master branch in that repo I would like to get rid
> of all unused commits [0 299,999]. Indeed each of these commits do not
> have useful history for my work. So I used grafts things to have:
>
>                               a---b---c---d master
>                              /
>                origin 300,000---300,001---300,002
>
> But now if I ask to git for:
>
>                $ git-merge-base master origin
>                # nothing
>
> So git failed to found the common commit object which should be 300,000. Why ?
>
> In other the hand, if I use grafting to get:
>
>                                                a---b---c---d master
>                                               /
>                origin 2999,999---300,000---300,001---300,002
>
>               $ git-merge-base master origin
>               2dcaaf2decd31ac9a21d616604c0a7c1fa65d5a4
>
> So now git found the common commit. Can anybody explain me why ?
>
> Do you think it's a good usage of git ? Or should I do otherwise to
> setup my public repository ?
>
> Thanks
> --
>                Franck
>