Re: [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdness

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:25:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Perhaps --full-history is needed to the rev-list call (and the recent
invention --simplify-merges that will hopefully appear sometime after
1.6.0)?  See recent discussion of --full-history and the default merge
simplification between Linus and Roman Zippel.  I suspect that back when
the original cg-rewritehistory was written, not many people understood the
issues explained in that thread.

Just as a historical note, --subdirectory-filter was actually not part
of cg-admin-rewritehist.

Ok, that sounds more plausible.  Recent addition whose wrinkles have not
been ironed out.