Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas)

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:34:36 -0400
> sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> If you're cherry-picking from a disposable branch, then you don't want to
>> include a link to it in your new commit.  Once you include the link, the
>> source commit should be protected from pruning just like any other piece
>> of history.  Otherwise there's no way for fsck-objects to know if a
>> missing
>> object means corruption or not.  So you need a way at commit time to
>> request the explicit linkage.
> 
> Actually this implies that anyone pulling just this branch would
> potentially
> also end up pulling large portions of other branches too.   So maybe
> making
> them optional is The Right Thing.  In which case, we'd just have to accept
> these as weaker than the parentage links and fsck-objects et. al. would
> have to tolerate such missing commits.