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 13:43:50 +0200 Organization: linutronix Message-ID: <1115898230.11872.8.camel@tglx> References: <1115847510.22180.108.camel@tglx> <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com> <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> <428297DB.8030905@zytor.com> <1115858022.22180.256.camel@tglx> <7vekcdmd16.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1115884637.22180.277.camel@tglx> <1895.10.10.10.24.1115890333.squirrel@linux1> <1115890792.22180.306.camel@tglx> <3656.10.10.10.24.1115891188.squirrel@linux1> <1115896713.22180.314.camel@tglx> <3745.10.10.10.24.1115897090.squirrel@linux1> Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , "H. Peter Anvin" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 13:35:49 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWByN-0005RQ-39 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:35:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261467AbVELLm7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 07:42:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261492AbVELLm6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 07:42:58 -0400 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:34184 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261467AbVELLm5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 07:42:57 -0400 Received: from mail.tec.linutronix.de (unknown [192.168.0.1]) by mail.tglx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF65965C003; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:42:53 +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 02F1228284; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:42:56 +0200 (CEST) To: Sean In-Reply-To: <3745.10.10.10.24.1115897090.squirrel@linux1> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:24 -0400, Sean wrote: > Right, that's what a fast forward head is. It replaces a sync / merge and > the trees become exactly syncronized via a shared head. I have mixed > feelings about fast forward heads, but they don't hide _too_ much > information. The question is how hard it is to do a reconstruction. In the current state automatic reconstruction is simply not possible. > Is there any _useful_ question you can ask where the answer > is lost for all time because of this. I want to see the history of _any_ repository in the order of changes in the specific repository. The fast forward heads without additional information simply do not allow this. I want to see the history of a file in the correct order. The current solution ends up with useless file version diffs or annotates where changes are shown in random order and therefor worthless. tglx