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Re:Resistance against London tube map commit history (a.k.a.... by jakjak123 on Saturday May 04, 2024 @11:25AM (#40258336)
This would rewrite the history for production. Not what you want to do
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Re:Resistance against London tube map commit history (a.k.a.... by LegionMammal978 on Saturday May 04, 2024 @12:10PM (#40258605)
The point, as I understand it, is that production has no meaningful history separate from main's history: it acts as a bare pointer, and rebasing it just fast-forwards it to later points in main's history.
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