On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:54:01PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:51:07PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:48 -0500 > > > > > I understand the desire to want a nice and clean history, but the > > > frequency here really has a negative impact on your downstreams. > > > > Ok, fair enough. Any alternative suggestions on how to remove turds > > without them being in the history? > > > > > It also totally screws the commit statistics, wiping me and John and the > > > committers we have preserved out, replacing everybody's committer with > > > David Miller. > > > > I am well aware of this downside, sorry. > > Ahem... Use of git-cherry-pick preserves commit information just fine.
Not by default, at least (note they said "commiters", not "authors"): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/local/linux-2.6$ git cherry-pick v2.6.25-rc1 Finished one cherry-pick. Created commit c445dc0: Linux 2.6.25-rc1 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/local/linux-2.6$ git show --pretty=raw HEAD commit c445dc0a8b11877d6038dc528254733348c9f110 tree 4018d5d93f857d946dd89acbb4e45c9da04eadaf parent b6ce068a1285a24185b01be8a49021827516b3e1 author Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1202681894 -0800 committer J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1202861481 -0500 --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
