Re: [PATCH] [BUG] Add a test to check git-prune does not throw away revs hidden by a graft.

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is it/does it?
>
> I'd assume that if you have a graft, you _want_ the history to be hidden 
> and pruned. 
>
> That's how you'd drop history, if you wanted to do it on purpose.

I haven't looked at what the test does, but I think he is
talking about the opposite.  fsck by design does not honor
grafts, and if you grafted a history back to your true root
commit, that "older" history will be lost.

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