From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Packham Subject: Re: [RFC] deprecating and eventually removing "git relink"? Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:03:07 +1300 Message-ID: <4EC0D94B.3060805@gmail.com> References: <7v4ny7mtbx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v62inkymg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Miles Bader , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 14 10:03:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPsRp-0006EG-8E for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:03:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753346Ab1KNJDL (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:03:11 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:36929 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753203Ab1KNJDK (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:03:10 -0500 Received: by gyc15 with SMTP id 15so4661981gyc.19 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:03:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2+f0Wjo1VDHT+9oidQ5N5MNrWbrlCBQ1iof7Lp2FL18=; b=F7FgGPjAR9Q8tkcUKMzGaYNvkHTsNV9GX8E/bqOK+IeNECE+wL0eA6ddMHzHBx3ZsX VFqpoK4UYB+iBjMU91LoNm+6DY2kja5G8OWSHneB7dLES1tBJvh6cqnUgov3GCrVKlnC L+bFHEImldT/6ez9maiJ8binRg5orKqG6FqIE= Received: by 10.68.38.71 with SMTP id e7mr47900356pbk.88.1321261389590; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.site (115-188-15-163.jetstream.xtra.co.nz. [115.188.15.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f2sm26539796pbg.14.2011.11.14.01.03.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:03:08 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 SUSE/3.1.15 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: <7v62inkymg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 14/11/11 19:27, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Miles Bader writes: > >> Do you mean a more elaborate UI that does this nicely...? > > Yes, that is what I meant. I also have a feeling that people would prefer > to have an option that treats these two repositories equally; your > illustration makes one a subordinate to the other. Not sure if it's what you're after but there was this patch [1] that I was kicking around a while back. I've still got the code in an old branch if there is interest in resurrecting it. It looks like I started addressing Junio's comments and never posted v3. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143164