Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

Jeremy Morton wrote:

On 27/04/2014 10:09, Johan Herland wrote:

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Jeremy Morton[off-list ref]  wrote:

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Currently, git records a checksum, author, commit date/time, and commit
message with every commit (as get be seen from 'git log').  I think it would
be useful if, along with the Author and Date, git recorded the name of the
current branch on each commit.

This has been discussed multiple times in the past. One example here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/229422

I believe the current conclusion (if any) is that encoding such
information as a _structural_ part of the commit object is not useful.
See the old thread(s) for the actual pro/con arguments.

As far as I can tell from that discussion, the general opposition to 
encoding the branch name as a structural part of the commit object is 
that, for some people's workflows, it would be unhelpful and/or 
misleading.

s/some people's workflows/most workflows/

Well fair enough then - why don't we make it a setting that 
is off by default, and can easily be switched on?  That way the people 
for whom tagging the branch name would be useful have a very easy way to 
switch it on.  I know that for the workflows I personally have used in 
the past, such tagging would be very useful.  Quite often I have been 
looking through the Git log and wondered what feature a commit was "part 
of", because I have feature branches.  Just knowing that branch name 
would be really useful, but the branch has since been deleted... and in 
the case of a ff-merge (which I thought was recommended in Git if 
possible), the branch name is completely gone.

I still don't see why you would need that information, but if you really need
it, you can write a commit hook that stores that information in the message,
it's very trivial. Also, you can store that information in notes.

You can go back through the history and find "Merge branch
'pacman-minigame'", but how do you know which commit was the *start* of that
branch, if they are not tagged with the branch name?

By recording the start of the branch.

[1] https://github.com/felipec/git/commits/fc/tail

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Felipe Contreras