Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:30:40 -0400

Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>>> Well, the principle of least surprise dictates that they should be kept
>>> by gc as described above, however...
>>> I can envision an option to gc say "--drop-weak-links" which does
>>> exactly what you describe.
> 
>> Well, IIRC the need for this was one of the causes of "death" of 'prior'
>> header link proposal...
> 
> As I understood it, one of the causes of death of the "prior" link
> proposal was that it was unclear if it pulled in the linked-to commits
> upon fetch.  In the "origin" case, the default is *not* to fetch them.

And that's WRONG. Both prior and origin must fetch them if they're 
reference in the header.