Re: A series file for git?

> > I am not sure about that.  What does the series file contain,
> > and what other things the meta data branch contain?  If you are
> > listing commit SHA1 in the series file, you _do_ have the risk
> > of losing things -- git-fsck-objects needs to look at such blob
> > object and consider that as the root of reachability chain; to
> > me that seems too specialized hack.
> 
> When described that way I agree.   The best I can imagine
> is to list those commits as ancestors of the current commit.
> Hmm.  Or possibly I could collect up tag objects and work
> with them.  In any case representing this in a non-hackish
> way is my goal.

> > I have a feeling that I really should study how well StGIT does
> > things before talking about this further.  It may suit your
> > needs perfectly.  What do you feel is lacking in StGIT that you
> > need?
> 
> What I want and what I see lacking in the git and StGit is
> the ability to record the history of editing the history
> of a branch. 
> 
> A mundane example.  It would be nice if I rebased a branch if
> I could record in some fashion what that branch was before
> I rebased it.