Re: RFC: grafts generalised
From: Stephen R. van den Berg <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:52
Mike Hommey wrote:
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These edits are numerous and spread over many months, so the typical history fixup-sessions involve periods where you make 30 random historicaledits per hour (which need to be viewed and checked every time immediately after making the change). And say once every 4 months, you run it through git filter-branch to cast everything into stone. A typical git filter-branch run takes 15 minutes on a repository this size.
I think the point was more about making a tool to do exactly what you want, based on the new git sequencer. Note that git filter-branch could also be rewritten to use the sequencer.
As far as I understood it, the new git sequencer rewrites history
proper. That is timeconsuming by definition, and thus it is *not*
possible to make a tool based on the sequencer that supports the desired
iterative-history-rewrite workflow.
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Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
You are confused; but this is your normal state.