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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Ed Hutchins <eh@demeterr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: "author branch" in commit object
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:33:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqehbgrnrx.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADL+T9YGtvFrzStxJW64OJEV6H0BroMbkVCJdsDwWDaUWd91zQ@mail.gmail.com> (Ed Hutchins's message of "Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:37:13 -0700")

Ed Hutchins <eh@demeterr.com> writes:

> 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?

FWIW, this is what Mercurial's "named branches" do. Instead of having
branches point to commit, each commit says what branch it belongs to.

One drawback of this approach is that the branch name is part of the
commit and can't be changed without changing the commit's sha1. Hence, a
local, private, branch name becomes permanent the day it's merged
upstream.

(for completeness: Mercurial also has essentially Git-like branches,
but they call this "bookmarks")

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-03  9:33 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 [this message]
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
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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