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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: History messup
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 18:05:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115661954.19236.44.camel@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050509170611.GJ24216@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 19:06 +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> If two repositories pull alternating from each other one has never the
> exact state the other has. They would play ping-pong and this is a bad
> thing. That was AFAIK the reason there is no COMMIT object introduced on
> 'head forward' merges.

That makes totaly sense, but for history tracking it is a horror
scenario, unless you dont have head history lists per repository or an
unique repository identifier in the commit blob itself.

tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-09 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-09 16:59 History messup Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-09 17:06 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-09 18:05   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2005-05-09 17:27 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-09 17:48   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-09 19:01     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-09 19:06       ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-09 19:34         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-09 22:08           ` Sean
2005-05-11 17:09             ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 20:31         ` Petr Baudis

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