Re: Feature request: "author branch" in commit object

2013-07-03 Thread Ed Hutchins
commits to automatically mention branch names, but for regular commits this is considered harmful? On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Antoine Pelisse wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Ed Hutchins wrote: >> On the other hand >> trying to figure >> out the history of eve

Re: Feature request: "author branch" in commit object

2013-07-03 Thread Ed Hutchins
o reason about or display the history of the project and is an irritating defect in an otherwise wonderful tool. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Ed Hutchins writes: > >> I realize that branch names are ephemeral repo-specific things, but it >> would be

Re: Feature request: "author branch" in commit object

2013-07-02 Thread Ed Hutchins
for example). On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ed Hutchins writes: > >> I realize that branch names are ephemeral repo-specific things, but it >> would be really useful to be able to determine what branch a commit >> was authored from (as a hi

Feature request: "author branch" in commit object

2013-07-02 Thread Ed Hutchins
I realize that branch names are ephemeral repo-specific things, but it would be really useful to be able to determine what branch a commit was authored from (as a hint to ancestry graph layout tools, for example). Is there any way to do this currently, is it planned, or would it be deemed useful en