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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

> Since there is a difference of opinion here, how about this proposal:
>
> 1) We keep -x in cherry-pick
>
> 2) I convince you to add my -x patch to rebase.sh (hmm, how to do that?) :-)
>
> 3) We add a -X option to both cherry-pick and rebase.sh that records
> in the notes instead of in the log message.

How could that be a counterproposal to a deprecation of -x and adding
hooks as a replacement, as a solution to more general issues?

>> I ended up using this hacky script for that.  It finds the svn uuid from
>> the metadata file, and then finds ".rev_map.$uuid" files from all over the
>> place to see if any of them contains a record that points at the git
>> commit I am interested in.
>>
>> I really wish "git svn" has a built-in way to do something like that;
>> perhaps I didn't look hard enough.
>
> Is git svn find-rev not what you want? (Caveat, it doesn't seem to
> work for me, but it's claimed description seems to be what you're
> asking for.)

Maybe, but it calls cmt_metadata() which is "grep ^git-svn-id:" of the
commit object, so we know why it doesn't X-<.