Re: [PATCH v0] fast-import: Add drop command

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm afraid I don't understand why it's a bad thing that fast-import
will find the old tree on disk, won't it just be gc-ed if it is no
longer used?

No, because fast-import actively checks this to make sure the frontend
script did not do anything wrong during the import. I think the check
makes sense and may help debugging a corner case the frontend script
does not support. So, using "--force" is also not a solution because it
ignores everything and not only the specific commits I want to leave
behind.

Vitor