On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > The grafts feature was a convenient way to "stich together" ancient > history to the fresh start of linux.git. > [...] > The much younger feature implemented as `git replace` set out to remedy > those limitations and dangerous bugs. > > Seeing as `git replace` is pretty mature by now, it is time to deprecate > support for the graft file, and to retire it eventually. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- > advice.c | 2 ++ > advice.h | 1 + > commit.c | 9 +++++++++ > t/t6001-rev-list-graft.sh | 9 +++++++++ > 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+) Perhaps, as part of this deprecation, the example in Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt should be updated to suggest git-replace instead of .git/info/grafts. Maybe, also, Documentation/shallow.txt should talk about replace-refs rather than .git/info/grafts.
