Subject: Re: cherry picking and merge

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:20:55 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Jakub Narębski <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> There was (long time ago) a long thread about idea of adding some
>> kind of 'weak' references (links), 'weakparent' that can be
>> automatically used by Git but do not pollute the commit message,
>> and do not affect reachability calculations.  Ultimately it went
>> nowhere (as you can see) - there were many problems.
>>
>> For example: how it would work for reverts and rebases?
>
> Perhaps some digging in the list archive before typing is in order.
> This may be a good starting point.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46770/focus=46799

Here is another.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19126/focus=19149