changing the set of dependencies (was: Branch dependencies)

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also sprach Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011.08.03.0125 +0200]:
> Not each feature branch may end up in master. And there does not need
> to be one feature branch which depends on all other features. For the
> latter you have probably an empty feature branch which just depends on
> all features. I call this branch mostly 'tip'. Removing a feature
> branch from the tips dependency list only with merges can't be done
> right now, and the proposed solutions never reached a usable state.
> 
> My second usecase is to convert a big quilt patch series into TopGit.
> Such big Quilt patches have mostly an artificial dependency to its
> predecessors. Removing these artifical dependencies makes it necessary
> to remove dependencies from patches.

Dear Bert, thank you for your reply.

Okay, understood. Yes, I agree entirely, the set of dependencies
needs to be mutable. And they must not be invalidated by branch
renames. Therefore, we really need some sort of other way to
identify branches.

Is there a way other than lamenting that refs did not get UUIDs
assigned to them from the early days onwards? ;)

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