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Bug 351297

Summary:	please implement 'grafts' support
Product:	[Technology] JGit	Reporter:	Mariusz Kozłowski <sp3fxc>
Component:	JGit	Assignee:	Project Inbox <jgit.core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	arend, grisha.levit, markus.kell.r, md2perpe+egit
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Mariusz Kozłowski

2011-07-06 06:19:57 EDT

Build Identifier: M20100211-1343, 1.0.0.20110609070

Command line git implements support for so called 'graft points' [1]. This is very useful feature when converting from another VCS to git. You start with clean git repository and attach old converted history (for example from subversion to git). Once you establish graft points command line git will see full history even before git was introduced.

This is currently missing in egit/jgit and one has to fall back to command line git if one wants to examine pre git history.




1. https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GraftPoint

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach converted history with graft point
2. Open eclipse and view history for some file

Comment 1 Robin Stocker

2013-09-28 12:17:41 EDT

*** Bug 344978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2015-11-26 13:49:44 EST

Bug 483109 is a related request for git-replace support.