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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: hmm, can't we give the "root" a parent?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:11:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050912181101.GA22221@vrfy.org> (raw)

Can't we teach the git tools that a "root commit" (one without a any
parent) is not visible as a "root", if let's say:
  .git/parents/<root-commit-id> -> <fake-parent-id>

does connect a "fake" parent to the "root"? This way we could add any
older Linux history to the current tree. Combined with "alternates" it
could live in a complete different repository too.

Thanks,
Kay

             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-12 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12 18:11 Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-09-12 18:26 ` hmm, can't we give the "root" a parent? Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12 19:59   ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-12 20:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12 21:00       ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-12 21:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12 22:50           ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-12 23:06             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12 23:09             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12 23:51               ` Kay Sievers
2005-09-12 18:27 ` A Large Angry SCM
2005-09-16 15:39 ` gitweb search in multi-headed tree Tony Luck
2005-09-17  1:22   ` Kay Sievers

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