Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 28, 2014, 10:03 UTC
Message-ID: <535E276E.8090306@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87zjj656my.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On 04/28/2014 11:37 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

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> Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
>
>> Obviously, the feature would necessarily have to be optional, simply
>> because Git would have to keep understanding the old commit object
>> format for a LONG time (probably indefinitely), and there's nothing
>> you can do to prevent others from creating old-style commit objects.

Johan: I seem to have missed your previous email (fat-fingered something
on my mail client I expect).

Your **reasons** for making it optional are all wrong. People like me (and David) who are opposed to this run the risk that if the **format** were to officially change in some way or for some reason (like, say, if SHA1 is no longer in favour, or whatever), then this "feature" is foisted on us willy-nilly.

That's not good.

So, while I appreciate your point that it should be optional, please let's accept that in the end it should be optional because **not everyone likes it**!

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> Personally, I am _strongly_ opposed.  How I name and juggle my private
> branches is nobody else's business in a distributed version control
> system.
>
> They are private.  My personal workflow.  Not part of a commit.

Hear hear!!