Stephan Beyer wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:42:30AM +0400, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I wonder if grafts can be used in combination with sequencer in such a
>> > way that you rewrite foo~20000..foo~19950 and then fake the parents of
>> > foo~19949 to be the rewritten once.
>> I don't think it is a good idea. During the normal work you should never
>> use grafts.
>I have written this in the context that Stephen only changes some commits
>from a long time ago (foo~20000) and then I showed a way how to avoid that
>sequencer rewrites the rest which takes so long.
>This is not related to "normal work", but to Stephen's use case (if I
>got it right).
You got it right.
>What I've meant, was:
>Instead of faking a lot of parents, changes and even merges using an
>extended grafts file, he could rewrite some patches - which can be fast -
>and then use _only one_ graft to change the parent to the changed and
>rewritten commit.
>This can be done iteratively and seems to be a good agreement in speed
>and reliability.
Indeed.
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Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
This is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?
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