From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Cannot push some grafted branches
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:43:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877goht6eu.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v38zb3ux0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:57:47 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> writes:
>
>> .... In this respect, they seem to be
>> lacking a few features, when compared to "replace" refs, but they have different
>> uses, ...
>
> Not reallyl; grafts were old hack whose use is still supported with
> its original limitations; replace is meant to replace all uses of
> grafts while removing grafts' largest warts.
I suppose there's the additional issue that grafts are much easier to
use than replacements if you really only want to replace some parent
lists. With replace you need to handcraft the replacement commits, and
git-replace(1) unhelpfully does not say this, much less gives an example
how to do it.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 14:39 [BUG] Cannot push some grafted branches Yann Dirson
2012-12-11 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-12 8:44 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-12 10:54 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-12 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 7:52 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-17 8:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 10:30 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-17 8:43 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2012-12-17 10:40 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-17 13:43 ` Christian Couder
2012-12-17 14:02 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-17 20:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-17 21:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-18 11:00 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-18 12:03 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-12-18 12:49 ` Thomas Rast
2012-12-18 13:41 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-18 14:31 ` Thomas Rast
2012-12-18 16:24 ` Jeff King
2012-12-19 7:13 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-12-19 13:06 ` Jeff King
2012-12-18 16:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-19 8:29 ` Yann Dirson
2012-12-19 13:12 ` Thomas Rast
2012-12-19 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-21 12:47 ` Michael J Gruber
2012-12-21 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-22 16:38 ` Michael J Gruber
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