Re: RFC: grafts generalised

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Dmitry Potapov [off-list ref] wrote:

However, if you want more than just ability to edit commits in a text
file but also inspect changes using normal git commands and gitk (as it
is possible with grafts), it will require changes to the git core, which,
perhaps, not difficult to implement using pretend_sha1_file(), but I am
not sure that everyone will welcome that...

On second thought, it may be not necessary. You can extract an old commit
object, edit it, put it into Git with a new SHA1, and then use the graft file to
replace all references from an old to a new one. And you will be able to see
changes immediately in gitk.

Dmitry