From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:22:28 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: <20080911202228.GG1451@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: <200809112205.16928.jnareb@gmail.com> Jakub Narebski wrote: >Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >> 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. >Well, IIRC the need for this was one of the causes of "death" of 'prior' >header link proposal... As I understood it, one of the causes of death of the "prior" link proposal was that it was unclear if it pulled in the linked-to commits upon fetch. In the "origin" case, the default is *not* to fetch them. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "There are three types of people in the world; those who can count, and those who can't."