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Quotes of the week

johill — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:31:03 +0000

What do you mean by the "edit mode"? It just invokes $EDITOR afaik?

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kleptog — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:25:35 +0000

I played with this during the week and it does seem pretty close. I've got to get used to the edit mode, but it's quite cool.

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rvfh — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:23:32 +0000

I personally use git rebase -i <hash>. Isn't it what you're after?

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jthill — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:03:13 +0000

How would a duplicate hash in different projects cause trouble?

For history editing look at cherry-pick and reset --merge and rebase -i. If you use reset --merge to build clean presentation-quality branches without uninteresting safeties and mistakes, and then delete the noisy branches once all is good, not only is your repository a manifold but full quantum reality, virtual particles, foam and all! (I'm neither mathematician nor physicist so ttmv)

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kleptog — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:26:08 +0000

Jonathan Hartley may have been joking, but this is kind of the way I think about how git works. Except your space is actually weirdly compacted because each point is represented by a SHA hash. If it ever happens that two different projects end up with a hash collision I imagine the universe will implode.

The only problem I have is that since commits are simply links between two "points" I imagine it should be easy to shuffle commits around, to merge and split them. But that just doesn't seem to be that simple (or I haven't found the right tool).

Anyway, "git rebase" is cool. Just had to say that. :)