On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:31:37AM +0300, Noam Soloveichik wrote: > On 12/03/2020 6:04, James Ramsay wrote: > > 1. Brandon: I thought it would be interesting to have a similar feature > > as Mercurial has. Mercurial evolve will help you do a big rebase > > commit by commit. Giving you more insights how commits change over time. > > > > 2. Peff: This has been discussed a lot of time on the list already. > Since I'm very interested in this topic, can you link me to some key > discussions you remember? Most of what I've found is Stefan Xenos having > a take on implementing it. Sorry, I don't much to offer. The discussion from Stefan is the only one I remember talking about evolve itself. I think my comment may have been specifically about the extra graph pointers that would be needed to represent rebases, etc. The general concept of a parent pointer that doesn't imply reachability has come up over the years. I don't have any links handy, though, and searching for "parent" in the list archive is not likely to be all that helpful. Hmm, searching for "parent" and "reachable" also turns up a lot, but this one is probably relevant: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20060425035421.18382.51677.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ Something that old is as likely to hurt as help, though. ;) -Peff
