Re: ‘core-updates’ merge is a squashed commit

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:29:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> In fact, commit 455859a50f88f625d13fc2f304111f02369b366b, which is the
> core-updates merge, is *not* a merge commit.  Instead it seems to be a
> squashed commit of all of core-updates.  Consequently, part of the
> history of the files touched by this merge is squashed into this single
> pseudo-merge commit.  :-/

Dang, that means we lost the commit history of core-updates. It won't be
in the Git log.

> This can be fixed locally with a graft to give the merge commit the two
> parents it is supposed to have:
> 
>   git replace --graft 455859a50f88f625d13fc2f304111f02369b366b \
>      742effef5629667b274087adc70b06abab86b252 
> a8cb87abe98d57fb763d5b14524dc32c96bd31b5 

I tried this and Git said "fatal: could not parse 
a8cb87abe98d57fb763d5b14524dc32c96bd31b5"

I don't have a Git object of that name in my repo.