From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:59:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vej3s223f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080910001316.GF7459@cuci.nl
"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> writes:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>As for "by the way ... was used to make this commit": this is git. So how
>>you arrived at the tree state you record in a commit *does not matter*.
>
> The typical use case for the origin links is in a project with several
> long-lived branches which use cherry-picks to backport amongst them.
> There is no real other way to solve this case, except for some rather
> kludgy stuff in the free-form commit message which doesn't mesh well
> with rebase/filter-branch/stgit etc.
>
> As to "does not matter": then why does git store parent links?
The parent links describe *where* you came from, not *how*.
And if you think the difference is just "semantics", then you haven't
grokked the first lesson I gave in this thread. "parents" record the
reference points against which you make "this resulting commit suits the
purpose of my branch better than any histories leading to these commits".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 137+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 13:22 [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 13:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-09 14:04 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 13:48 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 15:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 16:38 ` Steven Grimm
2008-09-09 19:43 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 19:59 ` Jeff King
2008-09-09 20:25 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-09 20:47 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-09 20:50 ` Jeff King
2008-09-09 22:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 23:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-10 8:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 0:13 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 1:59 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-10 5:38 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-09 21:09 ` Jeff King
2008-09-09 23:36 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 20:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 23:08 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-09 23:58 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 5:42 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 23:09 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 0:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 6:22 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 8:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 12:31 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 13:51 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 15:32 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 18:00 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 19:03 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 19:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 19:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 20:24 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 20:22 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 0:30 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-12 5:39 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:04 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-11 21:46 ` Jeff King
2008-09-11 22:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 23:01 ` Jeff King
2008-09-11 23:17 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 23:26 ` Jeff King
2008-09-11 23:36 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 15:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 16:00 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 17:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 18:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-11 22:32 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 22:40 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 12:28 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-11 12:39 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 0:03 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-12 0:13 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 15:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 16:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-11 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-11 20:16 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 16:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 19:23 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 19:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-11 19:55 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 20:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-12 8:50 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 21:01 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 8:40 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 8:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 15:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-10 15:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 23:15 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 16:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-11 23:28 ` Sam Vilain
2008-09-11 23:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-12 2:24 ` Sam Vilain
2008-09-12 5:47 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 6:19 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-09-12 6:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 14:58 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 15:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-12 15:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-12 15:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-12 16:00 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 15:54 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 16:19 ` Jeff King
2008-09-12 16:43 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-12 18:44 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-12 20:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-15 12:21 ` Sam Vilain
2008-09-09 23:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-09 21:13 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-09 22:56 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-09 23:05 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-09 23:32 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 9:35 ` [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert, and more about porcelain-level metadata Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 10:44 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-10 11:49 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 12:30 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-10 13:14 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 14:33 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-10 15:15 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 15:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 12:21 ` [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Theodore Tso
2008-09-10 14:16 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 15:10 ` Jeff King
2008-09-10 21:50 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 21:54 ` Jeff King
2008-09-10 22:34 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 22:55 ` Jeff King
2008-09-10 23:19 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 5:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-11 7:55 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-11 8:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-11 12:33 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-09-11 2:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-10 16:18 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-10 16:40 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-10 17:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-10 22:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-09-10 8:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-09-23 13:51 ` Recording "partial merges" (was: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert) Peter Krefting
2008-09-10 20:32 ` [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Miklos Vajna
2008-09-10 20:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-10 21:06 ` Miklos Vajna
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