From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Hutchins Subject: Feature request: "author branch" in commit object Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:37:13 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 02 21:43:11 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 1Uu6Tm-0004RO-3H for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:43:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754798Ab3GBTnF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:43:05 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.216.50]:53903 "EHLO mail-qa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754231Ab3GBTnE (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:43:04 -0400 Received: by mail-qa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id l18so3111642qak.9 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:43:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=T9F+2awWbY78IZt4WoQM2+yoeMEiPmUk8w5pPHUs+/0=; b=W2ohp0J90ItRsgkvGJAav/KlbdNYih//U59DjsjJXkzZIgG18y7SySheu0vjMJp/O3 PbSqZM+0HpjHZ9F7uZL/skAfUztUHZR41l/oFW0w3I/SoFyYYzjcKHkRG52FCUzX9Pqn Kwx2EHQV9oZLmv82HijffTDa/N4tQ/tDCMCqq8GHVFikq09TtmYIHATM+19gPGpZFOUV umbB/Lpn5MmEKtEwaro6zA2nWZYIFHylqjZh1KiEHe03dRvatRqRfjJoh1k4Lu2Z44X0 iVkCVjkS5QBGQd5ZmxvpEcEkVU+FKb3HMP9YmnsPv9m++nzr9R3vUpM0Q8Jeb+15xqOJ DsjQ== X-Received: by 10.49.12.33 with SMTP id v1mr40172628qeb.85.1372793834036; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.76.234 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:37:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkh3Wl6BL5ibLSPVk0QkGnGDfJRpofQW7BCJvbM/EPCJ9EnGE3srcpBHcjYf+a7bame5n0+ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I realize that branch names are ephemeral repo-specific things, but it would be really useful to be able to determine what branch a commit was authored from (as a hint to ancestry graph layout tools, for example). Is there any way to do this currently, is it planned, or would it be deemed useful enough to be worth adding to each commit object? - Ed