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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:41:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fhettp$rtk$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87myth58r5.fsf@osv.gnss.ru

Sergei Organov wrote:

> Just a wild idea. Doesn't it make sense to introduce perfect ultimate
> common ancestor of the universe, probably calling it "the NULL commit"?
> At first glance it seems that it can help to avoid corner cases
> automagically.

No. Sometimes you want unrelated branches in repository ('html', 'man',
'todo' branches in git.git), sometimes multiple roots are natural (merging
in a project, like git-mailtools, gitweb, gitk, git-gui in git.git).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12 13:11 What is the idea for bare repositories? David Kastrup
2007-11-12 13:19 ` Bruno Cesar Ribas
2007-11-12 13:57   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 16:19     ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-11-12 16:34       ` Cloning empty repositories, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 16:41         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 17:15           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 17:24             ` Bill Lear
2007-11-12 17:30               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 17:47                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 17:57                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:02                     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 18:06                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:09                         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 21:56                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-12 22:06                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 22:17                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 22:56                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-13  0:13                             ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-13  9:48                             ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 10:02                               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-13 10:50                                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 11:40                                   ` Jeff King
2007-11-13 19:50                                   ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-11-13 21:48                                     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 23:56                                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-14  9:35                                         ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 17:34                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-13 10:08                               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-13 11:19                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 18:41                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-13 22:01                                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14  0:25                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14  9:49                                     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 12:09                             ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 13:41                               ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-11-14 14:05                                 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 14:13                                 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 19:32                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 20:16                                 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-14 20:22                                   ` Bill Lear
2007-11-14 20:30                                   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-14 20:58                                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-14 23:38                                     ` Bill Lear
2007-11-15  0:28                                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-15  8:42                                       ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-15  1:16                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-15  8:51                                   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-15 12:44                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
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2007-11-15 13:15                                       ` David Kastrup
2007-11-15  6:19                                 ` Jeff King
2007-11-18  0:25                                 ` Jeff King
2007-11-18  1:06                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-18  3:25                                     ` Jeff King
2007-11-12 18:55                   ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-11-12 17:55                 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-12 17:33             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 17:54               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:16                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 19:17                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-12 21:59                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-12 22:49                     ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?711121715090.436?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?2@racer.site>
2007-11-12 17:32             ` David Kastrup
2007-11-12 16:39       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-12 14:20   ` David Tweed
2007-11-12 16:17   ` David Kastrup
2007-11-12 16:37     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-12 16:54       ` David Kastrup

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