Re: [RFC/PATCH] rebase: add -x option to record original commit name

[tytso@mit.edu]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:19:02AM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > How could that be a counterproposal to a deprecation of -x and adding
> > hooks as a replacement, as a solution to more general issues?
> 
> Sorry, it's been a long week and I wasn't thinking clearly.
> 
> Yes, adding post-cherry/rebase hook(s) would keep all parties happy. :-)

I really don't think it's a contamination of the log when it's used to
record a cherry pick of patch from the dev stream to an older
maintainance branch, but I'll grudgingly accept doing via a hook; but
can there be an easy way to control whether or not the hook is
actually executed?  

*Normally* I don't want cherry-pick -x, but some of the time I do want
it, and manually enabling and disabling the hook by having to do some
kind of "chmod -x .git/hooks/cherry-pick" command.  I suppose I could
create an alias for cherry-pick-record which does a "chmod a+x `git
rev-parse --git-dir`/hooks/cherry-pick; git cherry-pick $*; chmod a-x
`git rev-parse --git-dir`/hooks/cherry-pick", but that seems really
hacky.  :-(

So it would be nice if there was some kind of command-line option to
cherry-pick which could be passed to the hook script.

					- Ted