From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] cherry-pick using multiple parents to implement -x
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:57:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C53D51.50502@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34p4qpuuu.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
> Second, unless such header would be for informational purposes only
> (there was even proposal to add generic 'note <sth>' informational
> only header, but it was shot down; see the archives), you would have
> to do quite a bit of surgery to revision walking code. For example
> you would have to think about how commits pointed by 'origin' header
> would be protected against pruning; if you allow to prune parents of
> grandparents of cherry-picked commits, you would break I think a lot
> of assumptions in the code, and assumption in git design that if we
> have commit, then all that it references should be available (well,
> there are grafts, and there is shallow clone, but those modify
> reachability...).
I think it would be used mostly for informational purposes (for
hyperlinks in gitk, and in git-cherry).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 16:57 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 [this message]
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
2008-09-08 15:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
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