From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: History messup Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 17:48:23 +0000 Organization: linutronix Message-ID: <1115660903.19236.39.camel@tglx> References: <1115657971.19236.33.camel@tglx> <1115659677.16187.393.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 09 19:55:11 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVCG2-0001nG-4n for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 19:41:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261458AbVEIRsW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:48:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261466AbVEIRsW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:48:22 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:17282 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261460AbVEIRrh (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:47:37 -0400 Received: from mail.tec.linutronix.de (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F8565C003; Mon, 9 May 2005 19:45:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tglx.tec.linutronix.de (tglx.tec.linutronix.de [192.168.0.68]) by mail.tec.linutronix.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD05328204; Mon, 9 May 2005 19:47:37 +0200 (CEST) To: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1115659677.16187.393.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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