[I'm sorry about breaking Cc: chain - responding via GMane web interface] Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes: > Ed Hutchins <eh <at> demeterr.com> writes: > > > I'm not trying to change the way git does things (which works perfectly > > well), I'm asking for some extra information to be added to the commit > > so that analysis of the ancestry graph can be tied to the branch topics > > that the original author was working from. [...] [...] > It is not just misleading but is actively wrong to recording the > name of the original branch in commits and carrying them forward via > rebase. If you want a record of what a group of commits were about, > the right time to do so is when you merge. [...] There is even git-resurrect.sh script in 'contrib/' that makes use of that practice to find merged-in and deleted branches, and resurrect them (among other tools). -- Jakub Narębski -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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