From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:44:47 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: <20080911194447.GD1451@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: >On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >> Not quite. Obviously all parents of p and p^ will continue to exist. >> I.e. deleting branch B will cause all commits from p till the tip of B >> (except p itself) to vanish. Keeping p implies that the whole chain of >> parents below p will continue to exist and be reachable. That's the way >> a git repository works. >And that's what I called stupid in my earlier reply to you. Either you >have proper branches or tags keeping P around, or deleting B brings >everything not reachable through other branches or tags (or reflog) >away too. Otherwise there is no point making a dangling origin link >valid. Well, the principle of least surprise dictates that they should be kept by gc as described above, however... I can envision an option to gc say "--drop-weak-links" which does exactly what you describe. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "There are three types of people in the world; those who can count, and those who can't."