From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:12:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Teach rebase interactive the mark command
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804221810180.4460@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <7vy775ygjm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > So I really hate the idea of introducing yet other marks when we already 
> > have unique identifiers: the (abbreviated) commit names.
> 
> Didn't I give you an example why commit object names are _not_ unique
> identifiers already?

By that reasoning, rebase -i cannot work anyway: it relies on the 
abbreviated identifiers, not on anything else, for the "pick" command.

> I also do not understand why you think 'mark' is ugly.

Is that not obvious?  You _already_ have identifiers.  And there you add 
other ones.  Only because the original idea of the -p implementation was 
ignored.

Ciao,
Dscho