Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-26 Thread Jeremy Morton
, I'm saying that well-named branches can and do carry useful contextual information that oughtn't to be thrown away. Currently, when you delete that branch, you lose the branch name altogether. So what do you think? Would it be good to have a patch to add this feature? -- Best regards, Jeremy

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-27 Thread Jeremy Morton
you can link a commit to in an issue tracker. You may just be implementing a feature that has been agreed upon, independently of any such tracker. In that case, there's no bug# to link to. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-27 Thread Jeremy Morton
commits, which is rather undesirable when you could just see the branch name (when perusing 'git log') if it were tagged as part of the commit. Hope this helps, ...Johan -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-27 Thread Jeremy Morton
referenced.) Well, as I said elsewhere in this discussion, Git should provide that functionality built-in, IMHO. It would be good to be able to set a one-liner in my .gitconfig to tag each commit with a branch checked into trailer. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
a handy short description of what part of the application this branch is modifying (like my pacman-minigame example). -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
of the audit record, though? Aren't you just arbitrarily defining them as part of the audit record? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
as a hook on a per-repo basis. Do you foresee a point in the future where these trailers could be added through simple one-liners in someone's global .gitconfig file? That's where I'd really like to get to. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
, or what group of commits it is a part of. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
the co-workers need to run the post-checkout hook script manually the first time? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
On 28/04/2014 10:01, Felipe Contreras wrote: Jeremy Morton wrote: On 27/04/2014 20:33, Johan Herland wrote: The problem is not really less tidy commit trees - by which I gather you mean history graphs that are non-linear. IMHO, the history graph should reflect parallel/branched development

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
On 28/04/2014 10:17, Felipe Contreras wrote: I don't seem to what? I'm the one arguing for change, and I sent the patches to fix this default behavior. Well maybe you should work on phrasing things better - you come across as quite negative. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez

Re: [PATCH v10 11/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'

2014-04-29 Thread Jeremy Morton
. And also how about some logic to be able to say that if you're committing to the master branch, the trailer doesn't get inserted at all? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: [PATCH v10 11/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'

2014-04-29 Thread Jeremy Morton
that too. But it would be nicer if the logic were built-in, then you wouldn't have to share some script with your work colleagues. :-) -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: [PATCH v10 11/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'

2014-04-29 Thread Jeremy Morton
that too. But it would be nicer if the logic were built-in, then you wouldn't have to share some script with your work colleagues. :-) -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Fixing the p4merge launch shell script

2012-10-02 Thread Jeremy Morton
? Is there an easier way to do this? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Fixing the p4merge launch shell script

2012-10-03 Thread Jeremy Morton
Junio C Hamano gitster at pobox.com writes: Jeremy Morton admin at game-point.net writes: I've noticed that the p4merge shell script could do with some improvement when it comes to merging. Because p4merge throws up an error when one of the files it's given to diff is /dev/null, git

Bizarre problem cloning repo from Codeplex

2012-10-26 Thread Jeremy Morton
installation here? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] mergetools/p4merge: Handle /dev/null

2012-10-27 Thread Jeremy Morton
regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 11/10/2012 04:22, David Aguilar wrote: p4merge does not properly handle the case where /dev/null is passed as a filename. Workaround it by creating a temporary file for this purpose. Reported-by: Jeremy Mortonad...@game-point.net Signed-off-by: David Aguilardav

Allow git alias to override existing Git commands

2015-11-10 Thread Jeremy Morton
g option that allows the user to say that this should happen. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Allow git alias to override existing Git commands

2015-11-11 Thread Jeremy Morton
rome is for. We're talking about Git users using the commandline client. They ought to know what they're doing and if they don't, they're screwed anyway because there are quite a few gotchas with Git. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: Allow git alias to override existing Git commands

2015-11-11 Thread Jeremy Morton
(supposedly unrelated) somewhere else changes and you didn't remember and you tear your hair out. Not when it reduces useful functionality for experts, it's not. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message

Re: Allow git alias to override existing Git commands

2015-11-10 Thread Jeremy Morton
On 10/11/2015 18:12, Stefan Beller wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Jeremy Morton<ad...@game-point.net> wrote: It's recently come to my attention that the "git alias" config functionality ignores all aliases that would override existing Git commands. This seems like

Running interpret-trailers automatically on each commit?

2015-08-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
that there is *still* no way for me to configure git (on a global, not per-repo basis) to automatically tack a trailer onto every commit message? For the record, I want that trailer to be the current branch name. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Running interpret-trailers automatically on each commit?

2015-08-28 Thread Jeremy Morton
Yeah but it's kind of useless to me having it on each commit on a per-repo basis (and even then, only with hooks). -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 28/08/2015 18:06, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jeremy Mortonad...@game-point.net writes: I see that interpret-trailers has been added

Re: [RFC PATCH] clone: add clone.recursesubmodules config option

2016-10-03 Thread Jeremy Morton
Did this ever get anywhere? Can we recursively update submodules with "git pull" in the supermodule now? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 04/06/2014 10:30, Chris Packham wrote: Add a config option that will cause clone to recurse into submodules as if the --recurse-submodu

Reference a submodule branch instead of a commit

2016-10-03 Thread Jeremy Morton
the option of referencing a submodule's branch instead of a given submodule commit. How about adding this functionality? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez)

Autoupdate / autoinit submodules?

2016-10-03 Thread Jeremy Morton
it module configuration. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez)

Re: [RFC PATCH] clone: add clone.recursesubmodules config option

2017-08-02 Thread Jeremy Morton
Did this ever get anywhere? If not why not? It would be very useful to me to be able to clone recursively by default, especially considering you can't use 'alias' to override the existing 'clone' command. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 06/06/2014 06:26, Heiko Voigt wrote: On Thu

Re: Strange bug with "git log" - pdftotext?

2018-07-30 Thread Jeremy Morton
I discovered it was an issue with the version of Git for Windows I was using. Upgraded to the latest version and it works now. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 30/07/2018 16:37, Jeff King wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 01:49:46PM +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: I'm trying to search my

Strange bug with "git log" - pdftotext?

2018-07-30 Thread Jeremy Morton
own, repeating this output infinitely until I hit 'q'. What is going on here?? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez)