Junio C Hamano wrote: >"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@xxxxxxx> writes: >I think the commit object name -x records in the commit message of the >cherry-picked one is noticed by gitweb to give you an easy access. You >could teach gitk a similar trick, and that would not just help cherry >picking but also reverts, and a fix-up commit that says "This fixes the >regression introduced by commit 90ff09a5". Checking the on-disk format I see that it has been defined in a rather extensible way. If we were to put the SHA1-ref somewhere in the commit message, finding references to a certain commit through cherry-picks becomes rather disk/CPU-intensive. Would there be any objections against extending the on-disk format to accomodate something like the following: commit 7df437e56b5a2c5ec7140dd097b517563db4972c tree a006f20b481d811ccb4846534ef6394be5bc78a8 parent ff1e8bfcd69e5e0ee1a3167e80ef75b611f72123 parent bbb896d8e10f736bfda8f587c0009c358c9a8599 cousin 6ffaecc7d8b2c3c188a2efa5977a6e6605d878d9 cousin a1184d85e8752658f02746982822f43f32316803 author Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 1220153499 -0700 committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 1220153499 -0700 Whereas cherry-pick would (optionally) generate a cousin reference for every commit it picks. I'm willing to do the work to fix up git-core to support the new field. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. The Horkheimer Effect: "The odds of it being cloudy are directly proportional to the importance of an astronomical event." -- 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