Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas)

[sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:34:36 -0400
sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> If you're cherry-picking from a disposable branch, then you don't want to 
> include a link to it in your new commit.  Once you include the link, the 
> source commit should be protected from pruning just like any other piece 
> of history.  Otherwise there's no way for fsck-objects to know if a missing 
> object means corruption or not.  So you need a way at commit time to
> request the explicit linkage.

Actually this implies that anyone pulling just this branch would potentially
also end up pulling large portions of other branches too.   So maybe making
them optional is The Right Thing.  In which case, we'd just have to accept 
these as weaker than the parentage links and fsck-objects et. al. would have 
to tolerate such missing commits.

So now that i've clearly come down in favor of both sides of this argument,
i'll leave the decision to smarter people than me.

Sean