From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:33:41 +0000 Organization: linutronix Message-ID: <1115858022.22180.256.camel@tglx> References: <1115847510.22180.108.camel@tglx> <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com> <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> <428297DB.8030905@zytor.com> Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 02:25:30 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW1Vr-00072K-KN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:25:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261270AbVELAcw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:32:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261274AbVELAcw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:32:52 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:53635 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261270AbVELAcu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:32:50 -0400 Received: from mail.tec.linutronix.de (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C6265C003; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:32:48 +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 A59B62807D; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:32:50 +0200 (CEST) To: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <428297DB.8030905@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:40 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I expect neither of those two things to happen, but a complete working > > directory path is better than nothing to make educated guesses. > > Committer names (maintainers) can be the same over repositories, but its > > unlikely that somebody who manages more than one subsystems uses the > > same working directory for them. > > > > I can tell you what would happen in at least my case: you'll see each > "repository" with about 23 different IDs. You won. :) So what alternatives do we have ? - commit history per repository .git/head-history rsync and user error prone - .git/repoid rsync error prone - GIT_REPO_ID=xyz user error prone - directory name based guessing hpa error prone What's your preferred error scenario ? tglx