Re: Merging commits together into a super-commit

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: May 13, 2007, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20070513184327.GA14078@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7jtyh8q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2007-05-12 12:27:49 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
>
> > This supposes there is no valuable branch-level metadata.
> > Currently we have the description - something which could arguably
> > be moved to the git level as well. Otherwise that sounds
> > reasonable to me.
>
> Will it be something like
>
>       [branch "master"]
>               description = "My primary development line"

Yes, exactly. It's just a simple per-branch description string, just like in your suggestion.

> if so I think that is a reasonable thing to do, from git-core's
> point of view. Obviously, gitk, tig, gitweb and friends can use
> this, too.

Absolutely.

> Are there other per-branch information StGIT wants to keep on an
> active branch that might benefit the core as well?

No, I'm pretty sure there isn't.

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