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Bug 351297 - please implement 'grafts' support
Summary: please implement 'grafts' support
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: JGit
Classification: Technology
Component: JGit (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 enhancement with 3 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2011-07-06 06:19 EDT by Mariusz Kozłowski CLA
Modified: 2023-03-23 12:44 EDT (History)
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Description Mariusz Kozłowski CLA 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 CLA 2013-09-28 12:17:41 EDT 
*** Bug 344978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2015-11-26 13:49:44 EST 
Bug 483109 is a related request for git-replace support.