Re: publish from certain commit onward, keeping earlier history private, but provable

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On 09/12, Jörn Hees wrote:
Hi,

I've been hacking away on a library for quite some time and have a lot of commits in my private repository:

A -> B -> C -> D -> E

Finally, I'm nearing completion of a first version, and want to publish it to a remote called public from D onward keeping A..C to myself, so public should afterwards look like this:

D -> E

My main motivation is that i don't really want to put ridiculously first trials online, but still (on demand) I'd like to be able to prove how i arrived at D (think of copyright claims, etc).

As (at the moment) it's pretty much impossible to reverse-engineer the hashes of commits in the chain with times and changesets, i thought just keeping D's parent pointer to C would be one of the genius advantages of git. Sadly i can't find a way to actually make this work.

Can i somehow push D -> E to public making it a fully functional public repository with all the necessary objects included to checkout D or E and D still pointing to C as parent? If not, why is that?


Take a look at git-replace[0][1].

[0]: https://git-scm.com/2010/03/17/replace.html
[1]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-replace.html

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