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 -- 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