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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:24:31 +0200
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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> Well, the principle of least surprise dictates that they should be kept
>> by gc as described above, however...
>> I can envision an option to gc say "--drop-weak-links" which does
>> exactly what you describe.

>Don't you think this starts to look silly at that point?

No, it's the developers vote controlling his own repository saying:
Ok, I expressed interest in the other branches and their
backport/forwardport relationships, but I changed my mind.  Drop all
backport/forwardport information on branches I don't explicitly have.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"There are three types of people in the world;
 those who can count, and those who can't."