From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:24:31 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: <20080911202431.GH1451@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: >On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, 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. >Don't you think this starts to look silly at that point? No, it's the developers vote controlling his own repository saying: Ok, I expressed interest in the other branches and their backport/forwardport relationships, but I changed my mind. Drop all backport/forwardport information on branches I don't explicitly have. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "There are three types of people in the world; those who can count, and those who can't."