Re: Bring together merge and rebase

> Hi Carl,
> 
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Carl Baldwin wrote:
> > I imagine that a "git commit --amend" would also insert
> > a "replaces" reference to the original commit but I
> > failed to mention that in my original post.
> 
> And cherry-pick, too, of course.
> 
> Both of these examples hint at a rather huge urge of some
> users to turn this feature off because the referenced
> commits may very well be throw-away commits in their
> case, making the newly-recorded information completely
> undesired.
> 
> Example: I am working on a topic branch. In the middle, I
> see a typo. I commit a fix, continue to work on the topic
> branch. Later, I cherry-pick that commit to a separate
> topic branch because I really don't think that those two
> topics are related. Now I definitely do not want a
> reference of the cherry-picked commit to the original
> one: the latter will never be pushed to a public
> repository, and gc'ed in a few weeks.
> 
> Of course, that is only my wish, other users in similar
> situations may want that information. Demonstrating that
> you would be better served with an opt-in feature that
> uses notes rather than a baked-in commit header.