[darcs-users] removing old history

[VMiklos]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:42:22PM +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> wrote:
> >>This depends.  The simple case is if there are no patches which affect both the 
> >>private files and the public ones.  In that case, you can just obliterate the relevant 
> >>patches.
> >
> >Ah, that makes sense. Any idea how I could find those patches easily?
> 
> zgrep filename _darcs/patches/*
> 
> (zgrep may only be in Debian, but you can simulate it by gunzipping them then re 
> gzipping them afterwards)

no, it's a part of the gzip package, so it should be available on any
*nix system (at least Solaris has such a command, too)

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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