On 2009.11.20 04:48:44 +0300, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:03:31PM -0500, George Dennie wrote: > > > > For example, the functional notion of the repository seems well > > defined: a growing web of immutable commits each created as either an > > isolated commit or more typically an update and/or merger of one or > > more pre-existing commits. > > In Git, commits are not immutable. Commit _are_ immutable. Like all git objects (blob, tree, commits, tag). "Rewriting" history actually means creating a new history (adding objects), and then changing a ref (most often a branch head) to reference the new instead of the old history. Björn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html