Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> > > In other words, general history rewriting, but fast.
> > 
> > For this, it would be better to use a different approach: fast-import 
> > still hashes all the objects, which would not be necessary when rewriting. 
> > I guess that is what cogito's tool is doing.
> 
> gfi doesn't require that it rehash blob objects.
> 
> If the blobs in question are already available in the repository
> gfi is running against (say, from the old branch history) you
> can just feed those blob SHA-1s at gfi in its 'M' commands when
> making commits.

Ah! I overlooked that feature. Certainly, this makes gfi (could we please 
call it "fast-import", please?) very useful for history rewriting 
purposed.

Ciao,
Dscho