From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:39:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Teach rebase interactive the mark command
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804290138170.27457@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <7v3ap5a4ny.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> No, read the message again and think for 5 minutes.

pick abcdefg
pick pqrstuv

Now imagine that pqrstuv is a unique commit name _before_ cherry-picking 
abcdefg, but not _after_ it.  Unlikely?  Yes.  Impossible?  No.

Ciao,
Dscho