Re: Feature idea : notes to track status of a commit, which remotes it is shared to

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Feb 19, 2013, 10:13 UTC
Message-ID: <87bobgtxvk.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <51234801.5050208@mildred.fr>

Mildred Ki'Lya <mildred-ml@mildred.fr> writes:

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> The idea is to basically track automatically (in notes, either in the
> notes namespace or in another namespace) which repository/remote
> contains a commit. When doing git log, we'd see lines with each
> commit, something like:
>
> commit b044e6d0f1a1782820b052348ab0db314e2db3ca
> Author: Myself <myself@localhost.localdomain>
> Date:   Tue Nov 20 16:46:38 2012 +0100
>
>     This is the commit description
>
> Published on:
>     origin
>     git@git.host.com:pub/repo.git

The problem here is that doing this in notes is unreliable: you'd have to identify all places where the set of "publishes" can change for any commit, and update them there.

It's much easier, if a bit slower, to just run

  git branch -r --contains $commit

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch