On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:31:37AM +0300, Noam Soloveichik wrote:

On 12/03/2020 6:04, James Ramsay wrote:

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1. Brandon: I thought it would be interesting to have a similar feature
as Mercurial has. Mercurial evolve will help you do a big rebase
commit by commit. Giving you more insights how commits change over time.

2. Peff: This has been discussed a lot of time on the list already.

Since I'm very interested in this topic, can you link me to some key
discussions you remember? Most of what I've found is Stefan Xenos having
a take on implementing it.

Sorry, I don't much to offer. The discussion from Stefan is the only one
I remember talking about evolve itself.

I think my comment may have been specifically about the extra graph
pointers that would be needed to represent rebases, etc. The general
concept of a parent pointer that doesn't imply reachability has come up
over the years. I don't have any links handy, though, and searching for
"parent" in the list archive is not likely to be all that helpful.

Hmm, searching for "parent" and "reachable" also turns up a lot, but
this one is probably relevant:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20060425035421.18382.51677.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ (local)

Something that old is as likely to hurt as help, though. ;)

-Peff