Hi, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Fake-roots are special refs that declare certain commit objects > as root-commits). Each time git walks down the history, it checks > whether the current commit is an fake-root and so treats it as > having no ancestor. That should be generic enough let everything > else (commit, push, gc, etc) work as usual. > > The only tricky point is when to update remote fake-roots: the > remote should not cut off my local repo (unless explicitly asked). > So remote fake-roots should only be imported if the local/receiving > side has not the dropped commits anymore. You may be interested in grafts and replacement refs; see git-filter-branch(1) and git-replace(1) for some hints. Good luck, Jonathan -- 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