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Re: Feature request:

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DDany <nessup@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 3, 2013, 23:52 UTC
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Hey Jonathan,
Thanks for the quick reply. I think that's a great message; I do have to say that I wouldn't have known what the `matching` and `simple` modes are without that message; I just had to look it up is all. It may be helpful to tell users that `simple` is probably what they want :)

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On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> [I'm sorry about breaking Cc: chain - responding via GMane web interface]
> 
> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:
>> Ed Hutchins <eh <at> demeterr.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I'm not trying to change the way git does things (which works perfectly
>>> well), I'm asking for some extra information to be added to the commit
>>> so that analysis of the ancestry graph can be tied to the branch topics
>>> that the original author was working from. [...]
> [...]
>> It is not just misleading but is actively wrong to recording the
>> name of the original branch in commits and carrying them forward via
>> rebase. If you want a record of what a group of commits were about,
>> the right time to do so is when you merge.
> [...]
> 
> There is even git-resurrect.sh script in 'contrib/' that makes
> use of that practice to find merged-in and deleted branches,
> and resurrect them (among other tools).
> 
> -- 
> Jakub Narębski
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Message 14 of 17 in “Feature request: "author branch" in commit object”
  1. Ed HutchinsJul 2, 2013
  2. Fredrik GustafssonJul 2, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 2, 2013
  4. Ed HutchinsJul 2, 2013
  5. Antoine PelisseJul 3, 2013
  6. Ed HutchinsJul 3, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2013
  8. Andrew ArdillJul 4, 2013
  9. Johan HerlandJul 2, 2013
  10. Matthieu MoyJul 3, 2013
  11. Ed HutchinsJul 3, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2013
  13. Jakub NarebskiJul 3, 2013
  14. DanyJul 3, 2013
  15. DanyJul 3, 2013
  16. Matthieu MoyJul 4, 2013
  17. Philip OakleyJul 9, 2013

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