From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: History messup Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:31:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20050511203122.GD22686@pasky.ji.cz> References: <1115657971.19236.33.camel@tglx> <1115659677.16187.393.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1115660903.19236.39.camel@tglx> <427FB3A7.8050906@zytor.com> <1115665598.12012.422.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , tglx@linutronix.de, git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 11 22:26:09 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVxkn-0004Ic-7y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 22:24:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262047AbVEKUbl (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 16:31:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262046AbVEKUbl (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 16:31:41 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:50880 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262044AbVEKUbY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 16:31:24 -0400 Received: (qmail 26700 invoked by uid 2001); 11 May 2005 20:31:22 -0000 To: David Woodhouse Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1115665598.12012.422.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dear diary, on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:06:38PM CEST, I got a letter where David Woodhouse told me that... > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:01 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Seems like a UUID or a SHA-1 identifier would be better. > > > > However, one can definitely argue that even the meaning of "a > > repository" isn't well-defined in the context of git. > > Of course it isn't. But neither is the meaning "a committer" or > "an author" or even "a date". > > Including some kind of repo-specific identifier with each commit would > help us to make sense of the history, just as those other fields do. FWIW, I recently added .git/branch-name to Cogito, since I needed some identifier through which to differentiate between the branches (repositories - it's all blurred in Cogito view) when sending commits to CIA. It is strictly per-branch (never to be shared by multiple repositories), optional, informative and more of a temporary solution for now I had to cook together in a minute. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor