Re: [RFC/PATCH] rebase: add -x option to record original commit name

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Hmfph. So I know some folks don't like polluting log messages (e.g.,
>> the git-svn-id footer, or apparently, the cherry-pick -x message),...
>
> That reminds me of a slightly related topic.  I've been running git-svn to
> follow (but never build) a project without metadata, exactly because I do
> not want the log message contamination. I am having a hard time mapping
> the commit object name back to the upstream subversion serial number.

Since there is a difference of opinion here, how about this proposal:

1) We keep -x in cherry-pick

2) I convince you to add my -x patch to rebase.sh (hmm, how to do that?) :-)

3) We add a -X option to both cherry-pick and rebase.sh that records
in the notes instead of in the log message.

> I ended up using this hacky script for that.  It finds the svn uuid from
> the metadata file, and then finds ".rev_map.$uuid" files from all over the
> place to see if any of them contains a record that points at the git
> commit I am interested in.
>
> I really wish "git svn" has a built-in way to do something like that;
> perhaps I didn't look hard enough.

Is git svn find-rev not what you want? (Caveat, it doesn't seem to
work for me, but it's claimed description seems to be what you're
asking for.)

j.