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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:30:19 +0000
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To: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
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On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 18:24 -0400, Sean wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 6:05 pm, Thomas Gleixner said:
> 
> > Err,
> > each parent is a commit, which is identified by its repoid. Why do you
> > want to add redundant information ?
> >
> 
> It's not necessarily the repoid you pulled the object from though.  It may
> be the repoid of another completely separate repository.
> 
> Repo A -  creates object  HEAD = (A)
> Repo B -  pulls objects from Repo A  FAST FORWARD HEAD = (A)
> Repo C -  pulls from Repo B
> 
> Now as you traverse the history in Repo C, the object will show as coming
> from Repo A, not Repo B.

At this point it is completely irrelevant if you pulled from A or B. The
originator of Head A is A forever.

tglx