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>> And that dotted line really does sound like something you could do with
>> just the existing "hyperlink" functionality in the commit message.
>
> As far as I understand (note: I'm neither for, nor against the proposal;
> although I think it has thin chance to be accepted, especially soon),
> it is for graphical history viewers, for git-cherry to make it more
> precise (to detect duplicated/cherry-picked changes better), and in
> the future possibly to help history-aware merge strategies. And probably
> help patch management interfaces.
Can I suggest,
1. bury this origin link idea
2. make git-cherry-pick have a similar option to '-x', but instead of
recording the original commit ID, record the original *patch* ID,
*if* there was a merge conflict for that cherry pick. 3. tools can build indexes from patch ID => (commit IDs) to make this
other form of history navigation fast.Sam
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>