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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] cherry-pick using multiple parents to implement -x
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:51:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080909085122.GC12631@cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080908150017.GD10252@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> wrote:
>> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> >"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> 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).

>Here's at least one instance of it:

>http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0604/19514.html

Found it, thanks.  Digested it, and yes, some things changed.
I'll make a formal proposal which should take care of all the old
objections.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

"Be spontaneous!"

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-07 10:34 [RFC] cherry-pick using multiple parents to implement -x Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-07 17:28 ` Jeff King
2008-09-07 19:56   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-07 20:04     ` Jeff King
2008-09-07 20:22       ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-08  1:49         ` Jeff King
2008-09-08  6:57           ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-07 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 20:10   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-07 21:16     ` Thomas Rast
2008-09-07 22:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 22:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-08  7:37   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-08  7:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-08 11:51   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-08 13:04     ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-08 13:42       ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-08 14:37         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-08 14:57           ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-08 14:38     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-08 14:58       ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-08 15:00         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-09  8:51           ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]
2008-09-08 15:04       ` Paolo Bonzini

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