On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:53:55PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. Yes, you got me right. Hmm, so if it'll cause problems to the downstream users I can't do anything, unfortunately :-( Unless they wanna clone the tree again :-p Thanks for the info Junio. -- balbi -- 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
