From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: cherry picking and merge Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:16:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <51C01AAA-3CFB-4110-BAE9-7D04CA8EE53A@comcast.net> <20140801200201.GS12427@google.com> <20140801205040.GT12427@google.com> <53E25090.7010803@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Nico Williams , Jonathan Nieder , Mike Stump , git discussion list To: Jakub =?utf-8?Q?Nar=C4=99bski?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 07 01:17:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XFASF-0002Kl-K1 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 01:17:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754116AbaHFXQ7 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:16:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:55030 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753472AbaHFXQ6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:16:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA6830C5B; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:16:57 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=bRCZG9ZYUTdl 7mB/MbWmDFD0mGY=; b=bpwT8Vf/P0ry+V5iiGaMwa4ThtkKC8PHLFP6X/8gFnFs ET5jSNXK5uMkrtHJmgT1WS3wClv7kGBEkpK0T++O1XrWVJM7kI3Cw651pQIijSD/ qzpvE6XZGUiqnCYhJV6r5Gij7ZqaNV5QP+dijGvGaVYIE9ODLByjb0PgqJBHnYs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=VvbfKn ZT7sled107uMwNtlCZGHT+is0g0LQOnWUqgbzkhJRN87o0PmkHghs5odVIijt0U9 PjChfo+fxtGG74HejiwPKk0iDc8uz15IuCoD4BgwNVz/H+d+euttszJB7xDVgoSW PIZ/dO92g0cRHRAfqE9Ly6d0oJ5Y8fEe4ypPw= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655A130C5A; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:16:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5EA8730C51; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 19:16:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <53E25090.7010803@gmail.com> ("Jakub =?utf-8?Q?Nar=C4=99bski?= =?utf-8?Q?=22's?= message of "Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:58:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: BEBD633A-1DBF-11E4-A8E9-9903E9FBB39C-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Nar=C4=99bski writes: > There was (long time ago) a long thread about idea of adding some > kind of 'weak' references (links), 'weakparent' that can be > automatically used by Git but do not pollute the commit message, > and do not affect reachability calculations. Ultimately it went > nowhere (as you can see) - there were many problems. > > For example: how it would work for reverts and rebases? Perhaps some digging in the list archive before typing is in order. This may be a good starting point. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46770/focus=3D46= 799