From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:50:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080909205003.GA3397@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vljy159v7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:42:52PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> As for "by the way ... was used to make this commit": this is git. So how
> you arrived at the tree state you record in a commit *does not matter*.
But it _does_ matter, which is why we have commit messages to explain
how you arrived at this tree state.
Now, that being said:
> After reading the discussion so far, I am still not convinced if this is a
> good idea, nor this time around it is that much different from what the
> previous "prior" link discussion tried to do.
For the record, I am not convinced it is a good idea either; I was
hoping to steer it in a direction where somebody could say "and now this
is the useful thing we can do now that we could not do before." If the
ultimate goal is to put links to other commits into history viewers,
then the commit message is a reasonable place to do so. The only thing I
see improving with a header is that it makes more sense for pruning and
object transfer.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 137+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 13:22 [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 13:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-09 14:04 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 13:48 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 15:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 16:38 ` Steven Grimm
2008-09-09 19:43 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 19:59 ` Jeff King
2008-09-09 20:25 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-09 20:47 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-09 20:50 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-09-09 22:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 23:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-10 8:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 0:13 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 1:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-10 5:38 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-09 21:09 ` Jeff King
2008-09-09 23:36 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 20:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 23:08 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-09 23:58 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 5:42 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 23:09 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 0:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 6:22 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 8:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 12:31 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 13:51 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 15:32 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 18:00 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 19:03 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 19:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 19:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 20:24 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 20:22 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 0:30 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-12 5:39 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:04 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 21:46 ` Jeff King
2008-09-11 22:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 23:01 ` Jeff King
2008-09-11 23:17 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 23:26 ` Jeff King
2008-09-11 23:36 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 15:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 16:00 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 17:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 18:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-11 22:32 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 22:40 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 12:28 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-11 12:39 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 0:03 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-12 0:13 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 15:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 16:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-11 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 20:16 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 16:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 19:23 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 19:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 19:55 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-12 8:50 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 21:01 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 8:40 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 8:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 15:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 15:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 23:15 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 16:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 23:28 ` Sam Vilain
2008-09-11 23:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-12 2:24 ` Sam Vilain
2008-09-12 5:47 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 6:19 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-09-12 6:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 14:58 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 15:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-12 15:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-12 15:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-12 16:00 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 15:54 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 16:19 ` Jeff King
2008-09-12 16:43 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 18:44 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 20:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-15 12:21 ` Sam Vilain
2008-09-09 23:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 21:13 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-09 22:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 23:05 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-09 23:32 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 9:35 ` [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert, and more about porcelain-level metadata Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 10:44 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-10 11:49 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 12:30 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-10 13:14 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 14:33 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-10 15:15 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 15:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 12:21 ` [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Theodore Tso
2008-09-10 14:16 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 15:10 ` Jeff King
2008-09-10 21:50 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 21:54 ` Jeff King
2008-09-10 22:34 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 22:55 ` Jeff King
2008-09-10 23:19 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 5:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-11 7:55 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 8:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-11 12:33 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-11 2:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-10 16:18 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-10 16:40 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-10 17:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 22:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 8:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-23 13:51 ` Recording "partial merges" (was: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert) Peter Krefting
2008-09-10 20:32 ` [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Miklos Vajna
2008-09-10 20:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-10 21:06 ` Miklos Vajna
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