From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:42:44 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: <20080910054244.GB15715@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >> As you might have noticed, the actual process of pulling/fetching >> explicitly does *not* pull in the objects being pointed to. >.. which makes them _local_ data, which in turn means that they should not >be in the object database at all. >IOW, i you want this for local reasons, you should use a local database, >like the index or the reflogs (and I don't mean "like the index" in the >sense that it would look _anything_ like that file, but in the sense that >it's a purely local thing and doesn't show up in the object database). But then how would someone who clones the repository get at the information? The information is essential to understand backports between the various stable branches. The origin links describe the evolving state of a patch (i.e. just like regular commits/parents store snapshots of the whole tree, the origin links store snapshots of a patch as it evolves through time). -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "Am I paying for this abuse or is it extra?"