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From: David Roundy <droundy@abridgegame.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Cc: Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>,
	darcs-devel@darcs.net, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [darcs-devel] Darcs and git: plan of action
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:18:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050420111847.GF29945@abridgegame.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050419122518.GD12757@pasky.ji.cz>

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:25:18PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:20:55PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr> told me that...
> > > The problem is that there is no sequence of alien versions that one
> > > can differentiate.  Git has a branched history, with each version
> > > that follows a merge having multiple parents.
> > 
> > Yep.  I've just realised that this morning.  Is there some notion of
> > ``primary parent'' as in Arch?  Can a changeset have 0 parents?
> 
> Yes, the root commit. Usually, there is only one, but there may be
> multiple of them theoretically.

Incidentally (and completely off-topic for this thread), wouldn't there be
a sha1 tree hash corresponding to a completely empty directory, and
couldn't one use that as the parent for the root? Would there be any reason
to do so? Just a silly thought...
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-20 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7ivf6lm594.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr>
2005-04-18 12:20 ` Darcs and git: plan of action David Roundy
2005-04-18 15:38   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-19 10:42     ` [darcs-devel] " David Roundy
2005-04-19 14:55       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-19 16:33         ` [darcs-devel] " Tupshin Harper
2005-04-19 16:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-20 11:14             ` David Roundy
2005-04-18 18:35   ` [darcs-devel] " Ray Lee
2005-04-19  0:55   ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-04-19  1:43     ` [darcs-devel] " Ray Lee
2005-04-19  8:22       ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-04-20  1:22         ` Ray Lee
2005-04-19 11:04     ` David Roundy
2005-04-19 12:20       ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-04-19 12:25         ` [darcs-devel] " Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 11:18           ` David Roundy [this message]
2005-04-20 11:29         ` David Roundy
2005-04-18 21:04 linux
2005-04-19  0:07 ` Ray Lee
2005-04-19  1:05   ` Kevin Smith
2005-04-19  1:42     ` Ray Lee
2005-04-19  2:05       ` Kevin Smith
2005-04-19 22:08         ` Patrick McFarland
2005-04-19 22:40         ` Ray Lee
2005-04-19 23:03           ` [darcs-devel] " Kevin Smith
2005-04-19 23:06             ` Ray Lee
2005-04-19 23:32               ` Tupshin Harper
2005-04-20  1:11                 ` [darcs-devel] " Ray Lee
2005-04-20  7:52                   ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-04-20 11:55                   ` David Roundy
2005-04-20 17:11               ` Ralph Corderoy
2005-04-19 11:05       ` David Roundy
     [not found] <20050419235832.56117.qmail@web51003.mail.yahoo.com>
2005-04-20  7:55 ` Juliusz Chroboczek

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