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From: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow•net>
To: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin•de>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Find out on which branch a commit was originally made
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:26:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9CED68.50203@shatow.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1jp0h7e.lgk0kp19qe5bbM%lists@haller-berlin.de>

  On 9/18/2010 4:19 AM, Stefan Haller wrote:
> I'm trying to pursuade my co-workers to switch from Subversion to Git;
> some of them prefer Mercurial.
>
> One concern that they are raising is that in Git there doesn't seem to
> be an easy way to find out on which branch a given commit was originally
> made, after the branch is merged back and deleted. They consider this a
> show-stopper.  In Mercurial, branch information is meta data attached to
> each commit, so you can easily get this information even after a branch
> is closed.
>
Use an issue tracker? Associate the commits with ticket numbers in the 
commit msg.

git commit -m "Blah Blah Blah (refs #someticket)"

Bryan Drewery

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-18  9:19 Find out on which branch a commit was originally made Stefan Haller
2010-09-18  9:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-18 10:02   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-18 11:28   ` Tor Arntsen
2010-09-18 15:26   ` Stefan Haller
2010-09-18 16:41     ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-19  9:45       ` Stefan Haller
2010-09-19 12:54         ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-09-19 14:03         ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-19 14:08         ` Stefan Haller
2010-09-19 16:38           ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-19 18:30     ` Robin Rosenberg
2010-09-19 22:03       ` Seth Robertson
2010-09-19 23:12         ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-19 23:54           ` Seth Robertson
2010-09-20  1:31             ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-20  5:47               ` Seth Robertson
2010-09-20  8:12                 ` Stefan Haller
2010-09-20 10:58                   ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-20 15:49                     ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-21  0:15                       ` Seth Robertson
2010-09-21  2:12                         ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-22 16:35                           ` ANNOUNCE git-what-branch (was Re: Find out on which branch a commit was originally made) Seth Robertson
2010-09-22 20:27                             ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-22 23:26                               ` Find out on which branch a commit was originally made) (was ANNOUNCE git-what-branch) Seth Robertson
2010-09-23 13:14                                 ` Stephen Bash
2010-09-23 13:26                                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-23 21:32                                     ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-24  1:33                                       ` Artur Skawina
2010-09-24 20:57                                       ` Seth Robertson
2010-09-23 14:27                                   ` Seth Robertson
2010-09-20 18:20                     ` Find out on which branch a commit was originally made Stefan Haller
2010-09-24 18:26 ` Bryan Drewery [this message]

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