Re: [dev] [suckless] Migration to git

From: Lukas Fleischer <suckless_AT_cryptocrack.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:24:28 +0100

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:01:03PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> > I've been working with git lately, trying to do some unusual things,
> > and I need to say this is one of the least suckless pieces of software
> > I've ever worked with. It's complex, obscure, inconsistent, quirky...
>
> > tell what you did
>
> Ok, here is one day in the life of messing about with git.
>
>
> Let's say you wanted to get rid of all history from a repo, just keep
> the current commit. Git lets us rewrite history, so this should be
> easy, right? Wrong. I won't tell you how long it took to find this
> weird technique:
>
> [...]
>
> But ordinary things are famously weird in git, also.
>

It's a one-liner:

    $ git reset $(git commit-tree -m "foobar" HEAD^{tree})

Pretty fast:

    git reset $(git commit-tree -m "foobar" HEAD^{tree}) 0.00s user 0.01s system 70% cpu 0.009 total

`git gc` also works perfectly fine after running that.
Received on Thu Feb 14 2013 - 07:24:28 CET