On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:34:36 -0400 sean <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. So now that i've clearly come down in favor of both sides of this argument, i'll leave the decision to smarter people than me. Sean - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html