From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] git-repack --max-pack-size Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:26:33 +0100 Message-ID: <200705010926.35265.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <463678B7.70409@gmail.com> <7v7irt9qm1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 01 10:26:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HinhB-0000uz-6S for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 10:26:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031131AbXEAI0p (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:26:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031032AbXEAI0p (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:26:45 -0400 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.177]:13497 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031131AbXEAI0n (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:26:43 -0400 Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b35so290824ika for ; Tue, 01 May 2007 01:26:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=imu5wpm5pyPWX+DNsOVKrUmPVQfTSxPn6SN6YsUMSPyv2wV2/X467LH/kEX+msGIRrfMZlcaVEllqrcWJeXtIPoDySkvK5gdReyCVyCgXEaEnVAeao2nRXAL2wtGP2IrtOCKUmW987ryllHcjJL7X4u6293KcweH6nPQH/7dkPI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Buc6buvVgst1Z1p5Fgf6c+5bW63e7MdRUpUPiDyvVndcIfDeeB489pRF9d9HzVjdG8hGOPtUovW3F/zfiU8b077E+MuntB0F8qr22S9YDdoTIzy3BMQ7z4XtTr40vULvpmY+Z1NRmplSA4TECpYNEL7U+OeheM9yez6DlfRKWr8= Received: by 10.82.187.16 with SMTP id k16mr13667202buf.1178008001225; Tue, 01 May 2007 01:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b36sm2885143ika.2007.05.01.01.26.39; Tue, 01 May 2007 01:26:39 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <7v7irt9qm1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday 2007 May 01, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Which leaves 'master' right now at v1.5.2-rc1 while 'next' at > v1.5.2-rc1-687-gcb3892c; we might want to do something about > this apparent discrepancy. It's perfect - I'd say that it's exactly right. git-describe is for making unique - human readable names for points in history, not for describing the tree. It makes no difference that A and B have the same tree, they are different points. I've always thought of git-describe as being a way of mapping a commit hash to a nicer looking name. If A and B are different commits then they should have different names. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com