On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:10 +1000, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:03 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

Git does work like BK in the way that you cannot remove history when you
have distributed it. Once it's there, it's there.

But older history can be pruned, and there's really no reason why an
http-based 'git pull' couldn't simply refrain from fetching commits
older than a certain threshold.

Yes, that's what I did to get back to the commit just before the merge:

fsck-cache --unreachable 54ff646c589dcc35182d01c5b557806759301aa3|awk
'/^unreachable /{print $2}'|sed 's:^\(..\):.git/objects/\1/:'|xargs rm

removes all the objects from the tree prior to the bogus commit---it's
based on your (Linus') git-prune-script.

James