Re: Git Notes - Track rebase/etc + reverse-lookup for bugs ideas

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 10, 2008, 20:48 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811102147340.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081110195120.GA3688@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:51:50PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > Not that I know of, but then again, I'm not sure exactly what you 
> > > mean by "track rebases".
> > 
> > I guess he means that you could have something like this
> > 
> > 	rebased from <SHA-1>
> > 
> > in the notes for any given commit, so that _if_ you have the commit, 
> > e.g. gitk could show that connection (maybe dashed in the graphical 
> > history display, and as a "Rebased from:" link).
> 
> You don't really need "notes" for that, though, since you can put that 
> information into the commit message (or headers) if you choose. I guess 
> it has the advantage of not polluting the commit for others.

Exactly. And it would have the nice side effect that you could use a notes ref "rebases", and just not show it when you are not interested in looking at rebases.

Ciao, Dscho