From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080909132212.GA25476@cuci.nl> <20080909194354.GA13634@cuci.nl> <20080909235848.GE7459@cuci.nl> <48C785C3.9010204@gnu.org> <48C7E9A1.5080409@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Stephen R. van den Berg" , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Paolo Bonzini X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 10 17:48:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KdRvT-0005uC-3T for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:48:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752128AbYIJPrI (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:47:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752021AbYIJPrH (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:47:07 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60516 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbYIJPrG (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:47:06 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m8AFkKi4005634 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m8AFkJkn013231; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.937 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Sure. I don't use them either. But because I don't use them, it doesn't > affect me. It also doesn't change the core git data structures in any way > to introduce any new problems. Btw, so far nobody has even _explained_ what the advantage of the origin link is. It apparently has no effect for most things, and for other things it has some (unspecified) effect when it can be resolved. Apart from the "dotted line" in graphical history viewers, I haven't actually heard any single concrete example of exactly what it would *do*. And that dotted line really does sound like something you could do with just the existing "hyperlink" functionality in the commit message. Linus