Re: [git-users] Marking a commit parent as not displayed by default

2018-06-16 Thread Philip Oakley
I haven't progressed those ideas yet with the main list. I'm just in the process of updating my kit, plus a few familiy issue, which meant I've been short on time. I wanted to do some research on whether commit-tree would take the 0 hash as being a valid parent (as a stand in for root) or

Re: [git-users] Marking a commit parent as not displayed by default

2018-06-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So what sort of discussion came out of this on the main git development list? On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Philip Oakley wrote: > Interesting blog, but I don't think it's really that workable with respect > to having every commit within the rebase being merge linked back to the > older

Re: [git-users] Marking a commit parent as not displayed by default

2018-05-25 Thread Philip Oakley
Interesting blog, but I don't think it's really that workable with respect to having every commit within the rebase being merge linked back to the older version. However I do think that support is needed for marking a previous release commit (probably also version tagged) as being a terminus

Re: [git-users] Marking a commit parent as not displayed by default

2018-05-25 Thread Philip Oakley
Michael, I don't believe so, but it is probably worth re-raising on the Git mailing list. (Michael Haggerty is currently active as well) I say that because @dscho is currently doing a better rebase that can handle merges and amend the flow logic within such merged series that are being rebased.

[git-users] Marking a commit parent as not displayed by default

2018-05-25 Thread Michael
A few years ago (2009), the idea was put forward that some parents in a merge should be marked as "historical", or "uninteresting", and not displayed by default (http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/2009/08/rebase-with-history-implementation.html) Does git currently have any support for this?