From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:54:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach
Message-ID: <slrngvg1u9.65c.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3ocugod96.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 2009-04-28, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> ES> * The one where I lament that I want to like Darcs but I can't
>
> where Eric talks about difference between parentage in merge commit
> (which is needed for good merging) and "parentage"/weak link in
> cherry-picked commit; Git uses weak link = no link.

Well the patch-id is a sort of "compute on demand" link, so
it would qualify as a weak link, especially because git
manages to use it during a rebase.

I wanted to point that out but I didn't see a link to post
comments so I didn't bother.