Re: [RFC] git-split: Split the history of a git repository by subdirectories and ranges

Hi,

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Although I think that somebody (Dscho?) also had a patch to remove 
multiple identical parents, which he claimed could happen with 
simplification otherwise. I didn't look any closer at it.

IIRC It only happened when full history was wished for, _and_ path 
limiting. And Junio said that in that case, culling identical parents 
would be the wrong thing to do.

Ciao,
Dscho