Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:56:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Now if we had a mechanism to graft a later history which starts >> at 2.6.12-rc2 on top of this earlier history leading up to >> it,... ;-) > > We do - it's not even very hard, we just end up with 2 commits for every > change/merge that's unique to git, until we get to the current head:
Aren't you essentially rewriting the history after 2.6.12-rc2?. I suspect that would invalidate the current linux-2.6 history people have been basing their work on since 2.6.12-rc2, which is unacceptable. That is not what I meant by "grafting". What I meant was to give a hint to the core that says "this 2.6.12-rc2 commit in the current linux-2.6.git tree is recorded as not having a parent, but please consider it the same as this other 2.6.12-rc2 commit in the 2.4.0->2.6.12-rc2 history when traversing the commit ancestry chain". If git-rev-list is taught about that, then you will see "git log" going across 2.6.12-rc2. If git-merge-base is taught about that, it will be able to find a merge base to merge a line of development that is forked from say 2.6.11 to the current tip of linux-2.6 tree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
