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Re: emacs.git mirror status
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: emacs.git mirror status |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:51:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Well, if I use something like
>>>>
>>>> git-gui --blame src/xterm.c
>>>>
>>>> in the trunk, it is still Miles who indiscriminately gets all the
>>>> blame for multi-tty.
>>>
>>> Ok, the problem is that I didn't match the log message from the big
>>> multi-tty merge last May.
>>
>> Looking closer, this wasn't a merge, but an import. So the history is
>> lost, unfortunately.
>
> For git, the sole difference between a merge and an import is that the
> former has the branch as a parent commit. All the other history is
> reconstructed by git on the fly rather than tracked. So just
> redeclaring the respective CVS checkins (which can be discerned by the
> log messages) as merges from the respective branch commit should be
> sufficient to let git figure out the corresponding original checkins
> in the branch.
This should be doable with the
git-rewrite-history
command using its --parent-filter option.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, (continued)
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/15
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/15
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/16
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/14
- Re: emacs.git mirror status, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14