On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:41:11AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote: > > Short answer: you can use grafts to remove parents. Using grafts requires some cautious, especially when it is used to make some commits unreachable, because git gc can remove unreachable commits. Also, a repository with grafts cannot be cloned. So using grafts looks like more as workaround rather a real solution. > > It was actually an intentional design decision on my part preserve > parents based on branch name. We would eventually otherwise lose > history of the now-deleted branches, as reflogs can expire. Would it not be better to save the old branch using "@SVN-NUMBER" as suffix? Thus, those do not need the old branch can easily delete it. Dmitry -- 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
