From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Singer Subject: Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:12:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20050712051235.GA10930@buici.com> References: <20050711222046.GA21376@buici.com> <7vll4dndwu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050712021004.GA27576@buici.com> <20050712044352.GA9919@buici.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 12 07:14:02 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsD54-0001vh-Gz for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:13:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262364AbVGLFNF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:13:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262371AbVGLFNF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:13:05 -0400 Received: from florence.buici.com ([206.124.142.26]:21915 "HELO florence.buici.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262364AbVGLFMi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:12:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 11096 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Jul 2005 05:12:35 -0000 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:59:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Marc Singer wrote: > > > > Does it make sense to think about this branch as an flow of commits? > > Or is it just a starting point for a line of development? > > It's really a flow of commits. Nothing will ever really remember what the > starting point was at some later date if you have done commits, and the > branch will always follow the _head_ of development on that branch. That's the important detail. As an aside, we (a vary large set of developers) have been using SCM tools for how-many-freakin-years and only now am I seeing something sane. Cheers.