From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
Cc: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git describe question
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:17:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w1wf42n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487BD34F.4080201@gmx.ch> (Jean-Luc Herren's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:29:35 +0200")
Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch> writes:
> Mark Burton wrote:
> ...
> I don't think people usually say "tag X is on branch Y", excepted
> maybe if Y has never been merged anywhere. Specifically, nobody
> would say v1.5.6.3 is *on* branch master. But it's part of its
> history. v1.5.6.3 is *on* maint, at best.
Actually I am somewhat sympathetic to Mark here. Probably what he wants
is to describe 10ce020 as v1.5.6-390-10ce020.
While that probably is doable by using the first-parent-only traversal, I
do not think it is such a good idea. It is not how branches in git are
designed to work. As Merlyn always says in #git at freenode, a branch is
an illusion, and it is especially true in the presense of fast-forward
merge (aka the upstream maintainer asking a subsystem lieutenant to do a
merge for him).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 7:55 Git describe question Mark Burton
2008-07-14 8:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-14 8:20 ` Mark Burton
2008-07-14 22:29 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2008-07-14 23:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-15 6:40 ` Mark Burton
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