Re: keeping track of where a patch begins

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Le 22/10/2009 10:27, Thomas Rast a écrit :
I think this not only changes the model of branches, but also commits,
to some extent.  Currently, commit have no intrinsic branch
membership; if you say

   git branch foo bar

you cannot distinguish whether the commits on 'bar' were created on
'foo' or on 'bar'.  (By git's means; of course the decision would
favour 'master' if I had used that instead.)

I have been looking for a way to know that. I've even post a question about this on this mailing-list long time ago IIRC.

To me there is case where it is important to know which are the commits done on a topic branch for example. When working on multiple topic it is difficult to remember which commits have been done on this specific branch. This is needed to rebase onto:

   $ git rebase --onto somebranch <topic_base> <topic_head>

A common idiom, but one as to think hard (& right) to properly get the topic_base today.

Just my 2 cents!

Pascal.

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