From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dany Subject: Re: Feature request: Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:52:16 -0700 Message-ID: <67824DCD-A486-476D-9A04-D18B083DB090@gmail.com> References: <7vppuzfrde.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: "git@vger.kernel.org" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 04 01:52:23 2013 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 1UuWqU-0001Md-90 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:52:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932255Ab3GCXwS convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jul 2013 19:52:18 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f51.google.com ([209.85.160.51]:55368 "EHLO mail-pb0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754515Ab3GCXwS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jul 2013 19:52:18 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f51.google.com with SMTP id um15so613715pbc.38 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:52:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=oRkmn4QlkfwwUp1bZ0zG7+pihRtnumh2sQLzVg/Od1A=; b=YjCRqCto9E3g7sHLGdJcBmqc0C54ATMyfTfYZ2XN4RQv1zgQ8xhGM45NoeTgtNIRjm cPhL50sreG6Bhq9iLMGscstD7mtwRKb0puFeGhy8hywwsUcfjH8m3Htnbr4L32JZCHUy yRSuM+W1vbFjrihPKd48lIHQpVpVuSRYVp6ZGQ7Cp9RxnZxS8S/Ob1pJw8onPJGJE9No JldybAdsxSw1nSgPTV6RjwX0NnNyUKGkpqbUx769UclvQJTpVZKtry3S3cJhM2MZngOg xGhWFSiO/BivWPSbkRPy1OEtZ6pGx6y3rNeThhZTiVHMFVjApOOPQnaqtuKF9o5rBpr6 QUTg== X-Received: by 10.67.1.68 with SMTP id be4mr4444553pad.161.1372895537579; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.20] (c-76-102-3-186.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [76.102.3.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ry2sm226796pbc.41.2013.07.03.16.52.16 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:52:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hey Jonathan, Thanks for the quick reply. I think that's a great message; I do have t= o 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 h= elpful to tell users that `simple` is probably what they want :) @DanyJoumaa 1 520 991 5001 On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > [I'm sorry about breaking Cc: chain - responding via GMane web interf= ace] >=20 > Junio C Hamano pobox.com> writes: >> Ed Hutchins demeterr.com> writes: >>=20 >>> I'm not trying to change the way git does things (which works perfe= ctly >>> well), I'm asking for some extra information to be added to the com= mit >>> so that analysis of the ancestry graph can be tied to the branch to= pics >>> 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. > [...] >=20 > 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). >=20 > --=20 > Jakub Nar=C4=99bski >=20 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html