* kill filter-branch --remap-to-ancestor?
@ 2010-08-21 20:32 Csaba Henk
2010-08-25 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Csaba Henk @ 2010-08-21 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
I had some headache with the issue to which the cure is the "--remap-to-ancestor" option of git filter-branch -- back when "--remap-to-ancestor" was not yet (cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112068/focus=112838).
This time, in a similar situation, I had some headache with finding out that the panacea is already there and it's called "--rema
p-to-ancestor".
Why not cut back on complexity and get rid of "--remap-to-ancestor" while automatically enable the implied behavior for filters including a path? This was already proposed by Junio and the author of the option had no objections against this idea (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130949/focus=132684).
Csaba
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* Re: kill filter-branch --remap-to-ancestor?
2010-08-21 20:32 kill filter-branch --remap-to-ancestor? Csaba Henk
@ 2010-08-25 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Junio C Hamano @ 2010-08-25 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Csaba Henk; +Cc: git
Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com> writes:
> I had some headache with the issue to which the cure is the
> "--remap-to-ancestor" option of git filter-branch -- back when
> "--remap-to-ancestor" was not yet
> (cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112068/focus=112838).
>
> This time, in a similar situation, I had some headache with finding out
> that the panacea is already there and it's called "--remap-to-ancestor".
>
> Why not cut back on complexity and get rid of "--remap-to-ancestor"
> while automatically enable the implied behavior for filters including a
> path? This was already proposed by Junio and the author of the option
> had no objections against this idea (see
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130949/focus=132684).
I am not a heavy user of filter-branch myself (I used it once during the
past 6 months and it was with pathspec but the project did not have any
tags, so that particular exercise does not matter).
I do not offhand see a reason not to. Please make it so, if you are
so inclined, or perhaps somebody else may volunteer?
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