From: Dany <nessup@gmail.com>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request:
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:52:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67824DCD-A486-476D-9A04-D18B083DB090@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130704T013747-723@post.gmane.org>
Hey Jonathan,
Thanks for the quick reply. I think that's a great message; I do have to say that I wouldn't have known what the `matching` and `simple` modes are without that message; I just had to look it up is all. It may be helpful to tell users that `simple` is probably what they want :)
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On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> [I'm sorry about breaking Cc: chain - responding via GMane web interface]
>
> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:
>> Ed Hutchins <eh <at> demeterr.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm not trying to change the way git does things (which works perfectly
>>> well), I'm asking for some extra information to be added to the commit
>>> so that analysis of the ancestry graph can be tied to the branch topics
>>> that the original author was working from. [...]
> [...]
>> It is not just misleading but is actively wrong to recording the
>> name of the original branch in commits and carrying them forward via
>> rebase. If you want a record of what a group of commits were about,
>> the right time to do so is when you merge.
> [...]
>
> There is even git-resurrect.sh script in 'contrib/' that makes
> use of that practice to find merged-in and deleted branches,
> and resurrect them (among other tools).
>
> --
> Jakub Narębski
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-03 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-02 19:37 Feature request: "author branch" in commit object Ed Hutchins
2013-07-02 19:49 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-07-02 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-02 20:34 ` Ed Hutchins
2013-07-03 16:16 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-07-03 17:31 ` Ed Hutchins
2013-07-03 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-04 0:00 ` Andrew Ardill
2013-07-02 20:31 ` Johan Herland
2013-07-03 9:33 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-07-03 15:47 ` Ed Hutchins
2013-07-03 18:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-03 23:46 ` Feature request: Jakub Narebski
2013-07-03 23:52 ` Dany [this message]
2013-07-03 23:53 ` Dany
2013-07-04 8:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-07-09 21:46 ` Feature request: "author branch" in commit object Philip Oakley
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