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 ano

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 :)