From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Feature request: Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 23:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7vppuzfrde.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 01:46:44 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 1UuWkz-0003rU-4u for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:46:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932885Ab3GCXqh convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jul 2013 19:46:37 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59381 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932255Ab3GCXqg (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jul 2013 19:46:36 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UuWks-0003lV-8V for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:46:34 +0200 Received: from acsn12.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.11.41.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:46:34 +0200 Received: from jnareb by acsn12.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:46:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 83.11.41.12 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/25.0.1364.160 Chrome/25.0.1364.160 Safari/537.22) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: [I'm sorry about breaking Cc: chain - responding via GMane web interfac= e] 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. [...] 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 Jakub Nar=C4=99bski