From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:00:48 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20060425035421.18382.51677.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <7v7j5e2jv7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 25 21:00:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYSmL-0000vR-Lo for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:00:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751385AbWDYTAv (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:00:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751497AbWDYTAv (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:00:51 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:15272 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751385AbWDYTAu (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:00:50 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FYSm1-0000qe-8A for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:00:33 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:00:33 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:00:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> >> Additionally, in "related" links we require that object exist (core git), >> regardless of detailed semantics. And history browsers (gitk, qgit) can use it, drawing line, regardless of semantics. > And as I've now mentioned a hundred times, that's just unacceptable to me. > No suggested use of this has actually been useful, that I can tell. I don't mean we shouldn't define semantic for each use of "related" or "note" header. Just like email X-* headres have detailed form and semantic (long, long time ago Sender was X-Sender for example ;-). It's just a toolkit. As to suggested "related" (requiring object to exists) headers: "bind", "prior", and perhaps "revert". -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland