From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Friesen Subject: [feature request] embed original commit info in cherry-pick Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:30:33 -0600 Message-ID: <4D66A3C9.7050001@genband.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 24 20:09:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsgYp-0000zp-RY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:09:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756293Ab1BXTJA (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:09:00 -0500 Received: from exprod7og104.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.161]:33693 "EHLO exprod7og104.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756280Ab1BXTJA (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:09:00 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1069 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:08:59 EST Received: from source ([63.149.188.88]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7ob104.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKTWasy8+OX+vU7DVpTaVs2kPH0D42YntD@postini.com; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:08:59 PST Received: from gbausmail.genband.com ([172.16.21.55]) by mail.genband.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:30:34 -0600 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([1.220.17.171]) by gbausmail.genband.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:30:34 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.4 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2011 18:30:34.0193 (UTC) FILETIME=[EC963410:01CBD450] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.4160-6.500.1024-17976.001 X-TM-AS-Result: No--2.776600-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: If I cherry-pick a bugfix from a more recent version of a project, it would be useful to have an indication somewhere in the commit information of where it originally came from. That way, if I then upgrade to a newer version of the software it becomes obvious that I don't need to worry about porting that commit forwards because it's already been handled upstream. As it stands, it's not immediately obvious what was cherry-picked vs what was developed locally. Chris -- Chris Friesen Software Developer GENBAND chris.friesen@genband.com www.genband.com