From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:30:40 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: <48C9B830.2060903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080911202228.GG1451@cuci.nl> Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > 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. And that's WRONG. Both prior and origin must fetch them if they're reference in the header.