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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:03:09 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> >> Not quite.  Obviously all parents of p and p^ will continue to exist.
> >> I.e. deleting branch B will cause all commits from p till the tip of B
> >> (except p itself) to vanish.  Keeping p implies that the whole chain of
> >> parents below p will continue to exist and be reachable.  That's the way
> >> a git repository works.
> 
> >And that's what I called stupid in my earlier reply to you.  Either you 
> >have proper branches or tags keeping P around, or deleting B brings 
> >everything not reachable through other branches or tags (or reflog) 
> >away too.  Otherwise there is no point making a dangling origin link 
> >valid.
> 
> Well, the principle of least surprise dictates that they should be kept
> by gc as described above, however...
> I can envision an option to gc say "--drop-weak-links" which does
> exactly what you describe.

Don't you think this starts to look silly at that point?


Nicolas