Re: RFC: grafts generalised

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Stephen R. van den Berg schrieb:
> Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>> On second thought, it may be not necessary. You can extract an old commit
>> object, edit it, put it into Git with a new SHA1, and then use the graft file to
>> replace all references from an old to a new one. And you will be able to see
>> changes immediately in gitk.
> 
> Hmmmm, interesting thought.  That just might solve my problem.

I don't think it would.

You want to apply a patch through a part of the history. To do that, it is
not sufficient to apply the patch to only one commit/tree and then fake
parenthood of its child commits. You still need to apply the patch to all
children.

-- Hannes

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