From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, git@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: History messup
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 12:34:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <427FBB53.1000801@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115665598.12012.422.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> Of course it isn't. But neither is the meaning "a committer" or
> "an author" or even "a date".
>
> Including some kind of repo-specific identifier with each commit would
> help us to make sense of the history, just as those other fields do.
>
I'm particularly thinking of when you copy and clone directories, you
have to define your semantics more specifically. When do you want to
*copy* this ID, and when do you want to make sure a new one is created?
One possible answer to that is to have .git/repoid and have it
auto-created (from /dev/urandom) if it doesn't exist, but I also observe
that at least two people (davem and pavel) have managed to clone "Linus'
kernel tree" as their description on http://www.kernel.org/git/ ...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-09 19:28 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
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 [this message]
2005-05-09 22:08 ` Sean
2005-05-11 17:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 20:31 ` Petr Baudis
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