From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:01:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Notes - Track rebase/etc + reverse-lookup for bugs ideas
Message-ID: <200811102101.15285.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081110195120.GA3688@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Monday 10 November 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:51:50PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > Not that I know of, but then again, I'm not sure exactly what you
> > > mean by "track rebases".
> >
> > I guess he means that you could have something like this
> >
> > 	rebased from <SHA-1>
> >
> > in the notes for any given commit, so that _if_ you have the commit,
> > e.g. gitk could show that connection (maybe dashed in the graphical
> > history display, and as a "Rebased from:" link).
>
> You don't really need "notes" for that, though, since you can put that
> information into the commit message (or headers) if you choose. I guess
> it has the advantage of not polluting the commit for others.

Does it make sense to teach "git rebase" the -x option from "git 
cherry-pick"? As with "git cherry-pick -x" it only makes sense to use it if 
your rebasing from a public branch.


Have fun!

...Johan

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