Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> Up to this point, nothing mentions the name of the new option. Please
> write your log for a person who needs to write the release notes by
> looking at "git shortlog" output ;-)
>
> I am wondering if this even needs an option to trigger. Shouldn't you
> want this behaviour always when you give any pathspec?
>
> What are the sane reasons to leave the rewritten ref to point at the old
> commit, essentially making the rewritten history unreachable?
Fear of hysterical raisins, nothing else. I cannot really see a
use-case of the original behaviour, and since it does not change the
behaviour in the case of an unfiltered rewrite, it should be safe to
always be enabled.
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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