Re: Unexpected behavior in git-rev-list

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2005-09-23 07:26:16
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> >
> > It's not entirely trivial. The biggest bummer is that we'd have to fake
> > out the parent info (ie the "parent" would have to be the previous entry
> > that changes it, not the real one).
> 
> How about a program that made the fake thing real? That is, actually wrote 
> to the database the entire history with only those paths included, and 
> only commits that change those paths.

I think it would be a fine thing to do. If/once git-rev-list can do the 
"limit by filename" part, generating a new git history that uses that 
shouldn't be that hard.

And yes, it would be a way to generate a "subproject" automatically.

		Linus
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