From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:40:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Message-ID: <48CA8D6A.4000303@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809121711.32448.jnareb@gmail.com>


>> I know you seem to be resistent to caches, but caches are **good**
>> because they are local information, which by definition can be
>> implementation-dependent; you can always generate the cache from the
>> git repository if for some reason you need to extend it. [...]
> 
> But it is not true that "you can always generate the cache from the
> git repository" in this case; the patch-id that is to be saved is
> _original_ patch-id of cherry-picked (or reverted) changeset.

He's proposing storing the original patch id in the commit message, and
caching the commit SHA->patch id association on the side.

Paolo