From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Soffian Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] rebase: add -x option to record original commit name Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:00:15 -0500 Message-ID: <76718491002051800ga68dacdq2a432f544401b1fe@mail.gmail.com> References: <1265419166-21388-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com> <7vzl3ngn7w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <76718491002051758s577d8b5eq2323cd66d479662@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 06 03:00:35 2010 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 1NdZyC-0000gG-4D for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:00:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933874Ab0BFCAR (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:00:17 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f185.google.com ([209.85.223.185]:61680 "EHLO mail-iw0-f185.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933800Ab0BFCAQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:00:16 -0500 Received: by iwn15 with SMTP id 15so1694275iwn.19 for ; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:00:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=tL7fxMLiw8XNihHfltEwFUgT1JVQubdeC5sDNJw//Ks=; b=PIu2KiHh1rMUwqKPG5wfrCp4fxBVqKKU3+geZ0koZw8hvDBxREx48ksQehU8z7907g FleaWE1q1/XhlXYbszJWFoqxFKzfkeyq5TOeU7SY1bRo0F0xhSVkeZLGI/Vmt0VFO8h5 4tJ/5SjM+4HbDkFatS8Gi3WsODYDjTFvzMuSM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Kh9IVLextJBHiwrQiC4IGWsb+0WiSsExYosBy7fyy6XRww5fqLXPErRDzMC/M9E7/r IWZOiwA/YKWrbB/7uRsDVod0TeLHYCbqTuFa++6Mc4u7rL2DKdaMc+a+a/TATX+dsIdu EnnrlVDh+nX8HDLG5LWXi3BVXr7fZz3sk5MlY= Received: by 10.231.169.71 with SMTP id x7mr3739346iby.18.1265421615439; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:00:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <76718491002051758s577d8b5eq2323cd66d479662@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Jay Soffian wrote: > Well now that's interesting. I am in the process of back porting a > large amount of development, and it seems very useful to record this > information in the log message. The subject messages are not always > unique, so it's provides a very easy to find the original commit. Sorry, that wasn't clear. I meant, it's a more convenient way to find the original commit than looking through the original branch for a commit with the same subject. j.