From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point•net>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:02:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r44h6d47.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <535E1622.70608@game-point.net> (Jeremy Morton's message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:49:38 +0100")
Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point•net> writes:
> On 28/04/2014 09:32, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>> some people to is to always merge with --no-ff, that way you see the branch
>>>> name in the merge commit.
>>>
>>> But surely, it's recommended with Git that you try to avoid doing
>>> --no-ff merges to avoid commit noise?
>>
>> Nope. Different people have different needs, there's no recommendation. If
>> anything, the recommendation is to do a ff merge, because that's the default.
>
> That's what I'm saying. With an ff merge, you don't get the merge
> commit message telling you the branch name.
And I don't _want_ that branch name to be recorded. The whole point of
a distributed version control system is that it's nobody else's business
how I organize my work before submitting it.
I don't want to have people tell me when submitting patches "but can't
you give this a better branch name?" and then have to use git
filter-branch or whatever else to get the branch name removed.
> As I said before, I usually consider my branch names useful
> information worth keeping around - I'm not sure why you don't.
It is _totally_ useless information in a distributed development model.
Why would or should anybody be concerned what private branches some
submitter has developed his patches in?
This is not a useful part of a commit.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-28 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-26 23:56 Recording the current branch on each commit? Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 8:51 ` Robin Rosenberg
2014-04-27 17:27 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 21:40 ` James Denholm
2014-04-27 22:12 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 22:31 ` James Denholm
2014-04-28 8:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 8:49 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-04-28 9:10 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:23 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 21:58 ` David Lang
2014-04-28 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-27 9:09 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-27 17:38 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 19:33 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-27 20:55 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-27 23:39 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-28 6:45 ` Christian Couder
2014-04-28 9:01 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:09 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-28 9:16 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-29 22:14 ` David Lang
2014-04-28 9:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 9:17 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 9:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 9:35 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 17:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 9:39 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 17:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 23:03 ` James Denholm
2014-04-28 23:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 23:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-28 23:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 0:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-29 0:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 1:29 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 3:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 6:53 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 8:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 9:00 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 9:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 9:47 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 9:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 10:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 10:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 10:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-29 11:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 10:59 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 11:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 12:25 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 13:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 21:04 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 21:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-29 22:25 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 23:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 0:22 ` James Denholm
2014-04-30 0:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-30 1:11 ` James Denholm
2014-04-29 21:48 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2014-04-29 8:34 ` Robin Rosenberg
2014-04-28 2:30 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2014-04-28 8:52 ` Jeremy Morton
2014-04-28 10:03 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2014-04-28 6:07 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 10:03 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2014-04-28 16:38 ` Johan Herland
2014-04-28 8:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 8:50 ` Felipe Contreras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-28 6:36 Max Kirillov
2014-04-28 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 4:04 ` Max Kirillov
2014-04-28 6:42 Max Kirillov
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