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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:17:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115889450.22180.301.camel@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4282ADC9.2010900@zytor.com>

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 18:13 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > You shouldn't be rsyncing the .git directory, only .git/objects anyway. 
> >   Some people seem to have merely copied Linus' entire tree, and that's 
> > what causing problems. 
> > That one you can't win.

:)

> What I meant with that is I think .git/repoid is the right thing, if the 
> file doesn't exist a new ID file is generated.

Yep, convinced. 
The only thing I'd like to see is some thing which is human readable and
maybe helpful to deduce the context of this. 
Adding a dev/random number to make it unique is not bad.

So what about
repoid 'pwd' 'random' ?

> If people are copying their repoid file explicitly it's up to them to 
> know what they're doing.

True. I makes sense for maintainers doing updates to their public
repositories to keep the same repoid in their working copy at home/work.

tglx




  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-12  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-11 21:38 [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 22:00 ` Sean
2005-05-11 22:05   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 22:24     ` Sean
2005-05-11 22:30       ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 22:36         ` Sean
2005-05-11 22:48           ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 23:01             ` Sean
2005-05-11 23:33               ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 23:44                 ` Sean
2005-05-12  0:30                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12  0:45                     ` Sean
2005-05-12  0:56                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12  0:58                         ` Sean
2005-05-12 10:07                           ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-12 10:18                             ` Sean
2005-05-12 10:42                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 10:43                               ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-12 10:58                                 ` Sean
2005-05-12 10:39                             ` Sean
2005-05-11 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-11 23:38   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 23:40     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-11 23:45       ` Sean
2005-05-12  0:04         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-12  0:20           ` Sean
2005-05-12  0:33       ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12  1:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12  7:57           ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12  9:32             ` Sean
2005-05-12  9:39               ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12  9:46                 ` Sean
2005-05-12 11:18                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 11:24                     ` Sean
2005-05-12 11:43                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 11:48                         ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:16                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 12:16                             ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:34                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 12:35                                 ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:17                             ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:29                           ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-12 12:32                             ` Sean
2005-05-12 13:29                         ` Jan Harkes
2005-05-12 15:44                           ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 15:48                             ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 15:50                               ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 16:20                                 ` Jan Harkes
2005-05-12 17:09                                   ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 17:12                                     ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 17:35             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 18:18               ` Sean
2005-05-12 19:24                 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 19:35                   ` Sean
2005-05-12 20:47               ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 21:09                 ` Sean
2005-05-12 21:21                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 21:32                     ` Sean
2005-05-12 21:44                       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 22:06                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 22:24                         ` Sean
2005-05-12  0:41     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-12  0:44       ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12  1:09         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-12  1:13           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-12  3:30             ` Joel Becker
2005-05-12  9:17             ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2005-05-13  1:37   ` [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit [its a workspace id, isn't it?] Jon Seymour
2005-05-13  8:36     ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-13 22:25     ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-13 22:26       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-13 23:39         ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-13 23:49       ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-14  5:02         ` Jon Seymour

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