Re: [PATCH] disable grafts during fetch/push/bundle

From: "Michael Haggerty" <redacted>

On 03/07/2014 12:01 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:

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From: "Jeff King" <redacted>

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 05:41:27PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

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We can wrap that in "git replace --convert-grafts", but I do not 
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think

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grafts are so common that there would be a big demand for it.

It's probably easier to wrap it than to explain to Windows users 
what
they have to do.

How would Windows users get a graft file in the first-place? There's 
no
GUI for it! ;)

Now, now... It's dead easy using the git-gui and Notepad++, you can 
see
and confirm the sha1's, copy and paste, and the graft file is a very
easy format, so even wimps (windows, icons, menus, pointers aka 
mouse)
folks can do it. (It worked for me when I needed it ;-)

I didn't mean to insult all Windows users in general.  I was only
referring to the fact that since the default Windows command line is 
not
a POSIX shell, even an experienced Windows user might have trouble
figuring out how to execute a shell loop.

I'd missed that aspect about the shell loop. I was mainly pointing out 
current awkwardness of creating the replace object, relative to grafts - 
There was an initial attempt by Christian, but it became quite hard to 
make it robust to sha1's embedded in commit messages.

     Putting this functionality in
a git command or script, by contrast, would make it work universally, 
no
fuss, no muss.

Michael

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