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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: History messup
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 17:48:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115660903.19236.39.camel@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115659677.16187.393.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:59 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> It's normal practice, and it _has_ to be the case. Otherwise the trees
> would never stabilise -- every time Linus pulled from my tree he would
> create a merge-commit which I don't yet have, and vice versa.

Sure

> Unless a commit also carries a unique repo-id identifying the repository
> in which it originally occurred, you'll only ever be able to track
> history in the way people want by means of heuristics.

That would be really great. A line after "parents" like

repoid "username/reponame" 

would be sufficient

tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-09 17:41 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 [this message]
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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