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Non-committers can't keep authenticated forks updated

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Message #23 received at 75552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>,
 45mg <45mg.writes <at> gmail.com>, help-guix <at> gnu.org,
 Felix Lechner <felix.lechner <at> lease-up.com>, guix-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non-committers can't keep authenticated forks updated
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:52:15 +0100

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> This has the slight issue that I can no longer easily answer a
>> question "is this commit in my fork", since I cannot search by the
>> commit hash. I admit it is not a question I need to answer often
>> (last time was on 21st of October, CVE-2024-52867).
> You could solve this by embedding an "upstream-commit:" trailer, but
> that is an admittedly cursed transformation that no longer maps to a
> single rebase, I admit.

You can use the Change-Id tag for this.  Our local hooks create them and
they stay intact after rebase.

-- 
Ricardo

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