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mook on May 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Fram...

git replace¹ should be able to do it; otherwise, grafts² work too.

¹ https://git-scm.com/docs/git-replace ² https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GraftPoint

hobo_mark on May 27, 2020 [–]

That is it! Fantastic, thanks!

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Replace gives the exact example of what I had in mind.

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