Re: cherry picking and merge

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2014, 23:20 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> There was (long time ago) a long thread about idea of adding some
>> kind of 'weak' references (links), 'weakparent' that can be
>> automatically used by Git but do not pollute the commit message,
>> and do not affect reachability calculations.  Ultimately it went
>> nowhere (as you can see) - there were many problems.
>>
>> For example: how it would work for reverts and rebases?
>
> Perhaps some digging in the list archive before typing is in order.
> This may be a good starting point.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46770/focus=46799

Here is another.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19126/focus=19149