Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I don't think extra history is harmful at all, so the grafts could even be temporary. AFAIK, the extra history is only an aesthetic issue in visualizers (and I actually like to see it myself). Besides, git svn is just a workaround until the SVN repository is replaced entirely by git :) > > 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. That would require renaming _existing_ branches to their "@SVN-NUMBER" name; which would break mechanisms for tracking branches based on refname. -- Eric Wong -- 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
