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 00:44:30 +0000 Organization: linutronix Message-ID: <1115858670.22180.259.camel@tglx> References: <1115847510.22180.108.camel@tglx> <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com> <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> <200505111941.04104.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 02:36:21 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW1gP-0008Sa-Lu for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:36:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261249AbVELAnp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:43:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261265AbVELAnp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:43:45 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:57475 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261249AbVELAno (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:43:44 -0400 Received: from mail.tec.linutronix.de (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C89265C003; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:43:37 +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 133502807D; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:43:39 +0200 (CEST) To: Dmitry Torokhov In-Reply-To: <200505111941.04104.dtor_core@ameritech.net> 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 19:41 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > Which is complety error prone due to rsync. Some of the repositories on > > kernel.org keep identical copies of .git/description already. Why should > > they preserve an unique .git/repoid ? > > I think that an unique repoid should be created automatically every time > you clone. It is ok for it to go away when you discard a tree, it will just > identify a line (set) of changes originating from some place. Yes, as long as you make sure that rsync does _NOT_ pollute/populate it tglx