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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Cannot push some grafted branches
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:13:21 +0100
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Am 12/18/2012 17:24, schrieb Jeff King:
> I am not really interested in pushing this forward myself, but I worked
> up this toy that somebody might find interesting (you can "git replace
> HEAD~20" to get dumped in an editor). It should probably handle trees,
> and it would probably make sense to do per-object-type sanity checks
> (e.g., call verify_tag on tags).

I know it's just a throw-away patch, but I would discourage to go this
route without also adding all the sanity checks. Otherwise, it will have
just created a porcelain command that can generate a commit object with
any content you want!

-- Hannes