From: "Michael Haggerty" <mhag...@alum.mit.edu>
On 03/07/2014 12:01 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:
From: "Jeff King" <p...@peff.net>
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 05:41:27PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> We can wrap that in "git replace --convert-grafts", but I do not
> >
think
> 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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