From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 08/12] Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:02:14 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4orsbpzd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1251337437-16947-1-git-send-email-johan@herland.net> <20090827212710.GV1033@spearce.org> <7vy6p5ncz0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <200908280103.06015.johan@herland.net> <20090827233900.GA7347@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7viqg8hj98.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vocq0d86p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Johan Herland , git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" , Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, trast@student.ethz.ch, tavestbo@trolltech.com, git@drmicha.warpmail.net, chriscool@tuxfamily.org To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 28 05:02:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mgrjn-000101-TE for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:02:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751436AbZH1DCj (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:02:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751431AbZH1DCi (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:02:38 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:58954 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751260AbZH1DCi (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:02:38 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8EC1B3C9; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:02:39 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=+Cz1QeUNkTcsnyVsr/kfJk9cuMs=; b=c7oPsW zqTjhu5X960uu/DOKLYpNCUAoywdAXUj62kPOjNTd26sDR92/FSlhDjUknJEGUTc 5XKIL80qv5yF1aMWnEze+eopAgjZbXOaQlzp/tOrb608uMsSTTOX5RB+j8qGNaEd dLN9ixn1DaPzgRd2nwO/8EHJmFXp0gvK+LV78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=cRD+M66CB8o0XCROu1pFBL/AZVQpubNK MRSsQa+rlzRYZ4LAA9qZnxC9JFVUuIMiIeOqCRe9agJOs/ycLbwVEsChsOLcgHwT EMjNcB3gd4LZncLY91IDfIfblDSfgyR/gltZpfYMCFow3sPpo3OQozR1sLyXc9vq 47BK+q0MJcc= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2CC71B3C6; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:02:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6845B1B3C2; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:02:16 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Sverre Rabbelier's message of "Thu\, 27 Aug 2009 19\:51\:48 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 38B18E12-937F-11DE-BAC4-CA0F1FFB4A78-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sverre Rabbelier writes: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 18:43, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Did you mean "a commit in branch bar referred to a commit in branch foo", >> similar to the way the "cherry-picked from X" comment can refer to a >> missing commit? > > Yes, sorry, I meant referred to in the commit message. In such a case would you rather want to see the commit itself first, or at least, commit _and_ notes _together_? I admit that this all depends on what application the notes are used for, but I am suffering from lack of imagination to come up with a plausible scenario in which you would want to look at the notes to that missing commit first, without getting the commit itself.