From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:16:48 GMT
Subject: Re: cherry picking and merge
Message-ID: <xmqqzjfhky3j.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <53E25090.7010803@gmail.com>

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