Hi, On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Karl Hasselström wrote: > > > In other words, general history rewriting, but fast. > > > > For this, it would be better to use a different approach: fast-import > > still hashes all the objects, which would not be necessary when rewriting. > > I guess that is what cogito's tool is doing. > > gfi doesn't require that it rehash blob objects. > > If the blobs in question are already available in the repository > gfi is running against (say, from the old branch history) you > can just feed those blob SHA-1s at gfi in its 'M' commands when > making commits. Ah! I overlooked that feature. Certainly, this makes gfi (could we please call it "fast-import", please?) very useful for history rewriting purposed. Ciao, Dscho