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Isn't the reason for the problem is that multiple branches and tags may have any given commit? Same as in CVS? It seems like the problem is the UI that assumes that only a single branch may have any given commit.

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BTW, whilst at it, any chance you can fix search by user-id? Currently freshbsd.org/search?project=freebsd&committer=phk doesn't produce the expected results.

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No. The problem is that to git, a branch is just a reference to the commit currently at the tip of that branch - the rest of the commit graph is completely anonymous sans its position in that graph.

Where in SVN it's implicit in the paths a commit touches and in CVS it's a specific field in the RCS metadata for a commit, in Git it's a big graph problem it isn't overly interested in solving.

And yes, people keep asking about the legacy username thing - I'll get to it :)

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