From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:05:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Message-ID: <48CA8544.8090000@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080912145802.GV5082@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:47:39AM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>>> You could add it as a 
>>> 	Original-patch-id: <sha1>
>> That will probably work fine when operating locally on (short) temporary
>> branches.
>>
>> It would probably become computationally prohibitive to use it between
>> long lived permanent branches.  In that case it would need to be
>> augmented by the sha1 of the originating commit.
> 
> Nope, as Sam suggested in his original message (but which got clipped
> by Linus when he was replying) all you have to do is to have a
> separate local database which ties commits and patch-id's together as
> a cache/index.

Yeah, I must admit I am okay with *this* cache.

Paolo