From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" Subject: Re: [RFC] cherry-pick using multiple parents to implement -x Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:58:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20080908145802.GB8528@cuci.nl> References: <20080907103415.GA3139@cuci.nl> <7vhc8rjyxj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080908115129.GA19031@cuci.nl> <20080908143807.GB10252@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 08 17:00:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KciCv-0003g2-6i for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:59:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752126AbYIHO6G (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:58:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752080AbYIHO6F (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:58:05 -0400 Received: from aristoteles.cuci.nl ([212.125.128.18]:44337 "EHLO aristoteles.cuci.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750989AbYIHO6E (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:58:04 -0400 Received: by aristoteles.cuci.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 42A315465; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080908143807.GB10252@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >"Stephen R. van den Berg" wrote: >> Whereas cherry-pick would (optionally) generate a cousin reference for every >> commit it picks. >Sorry for wandering into a thread in the middle. But we've already >been down this road before, and decided the additional header wasn't >worth it from cherry-pick. What's changed? I'm not familiar with the old thread. Any pointers? (I tried googling, but couldn't seem to find it). > The fact that gitk >wants to hyperlink this? Why can't it just regex out a string of >hex digits longer than 6 and see if there is a commit that matches? To avoid (accidental) duplication of the old thread, I'll try and read that first. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. The Horkheimer Effect: "The odds of it being cloudy are directly proportional to the importance of an astronomical event."