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Re: cherry picking and merge

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2014, 23:16 UTC
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Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
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> 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
Previous: Nico WilliamsNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 30 of 43 in “cherry picking and merge”
  1. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  2. brian m. carlsonAug 1, 2014
  3. Jakub NarębskiAug 1, 2014
  4. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  5. Philip OakleyAug 1, 2014
  6. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  7. Philip OakleyAug 2, 2014
  8. Philip OakleyAug 2, 2014
  9. Sam VilainAug 1, 2014
  10. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  11. Nico WilliamsAug 1, 2014
  12. Alex DavidsonAug 2, 2014
  13. Mike StumpAug 6, 2014
  14. Rebase safely (Re: cherry picking and merge)Nico Williams, Aug 6, 2014
  15. Nico WilliamsAug 6, 2014
  16. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  17. Keller, Jacob EAug 21, 2014
  18. Keller, Jacob EAug 21, 2014
  19. Nico WilliamsAug 1, 2014
  20. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  21. Nico WilliamsAug 1, 2014
  22. Jonathan NiederAug 1, 2014
  23. Jonathan NiederAug 1, 2014
  24. Nico WilliamsAug 1, 2014
  25. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2014
  26. Nico WilliamsAug 1, 2014
  27. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2014
  28. Jakub NarębskiAug 6, 2014
  29. Nico WilliamsAug 6, 2014
  30. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2014
  31. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2014
  32. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  33. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  34. Jonathan NiederAug 1, 2014
  35. Fwd: cherry picking and mergeJakub Narębski, Aug 1, 2014
  36. Mike StumpAug 1, 2014
  37. Philip OakleyAug 2, 2014
  38. Jakub NarębskiAug 6, 2014
  39. Mike StumpAug 6, 2014
  40. Nico WilliamsAug 7, 2014
  41. Mike StumpAug 8, 2014
  42. Nico WilliamsAug 8, 2014
  43. Fwd: Rebase safely (Re: cherry picking and merge)Mike Stump, Aug 8, 2014

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