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
next prev parent 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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