Re: fixing duplicated history

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Felipe Balbi <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I have a git tree which history is completely messed up with duplicated
> entries. By reading git man pages I saw that it might be possible to
> delete those duplicated entries with git reflog delete, am I reading it
> right ?
>
> If so, would it cause any problems to the users who already cloned the
> original tree ? I mean, will git see it as a different history line and
> try a merge or will it figure it's the same tree with the duplicated
> entries removed ?

I assume that you meant "commit" by "entry", and also I assume that you
read "git filter-branch" not "git reflog delete".  Then you are right.

And rewriting history with filter-branch will cause problems to the
downstream users.
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