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From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
To: sf <sf@b-i-t.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:38:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051119013837.GA3393@nowhere.earth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437DDDB1.60103@b-i-t.de>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:57:05PM +0100, sf wrote:
> >Indeed that emphasizes that the history lines are on living on a
> >higher level of abstraction that commits.  Now what if we used
> >trees->tree commits, instead of the current commits->tree ones ?  The
> >main problem would be to be able to reconstruct those history lines,
> >so that we can still extract the log - what's a better model if we
> >loose functionnality ? ;)
> 
> You can traverse tree -> commit -> tree -> commit -> tree ... to get the 
> history. No functionality lost.

No, that would require that a tree knows about the commits leading to
it, which would mix levels of abstraction as well.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-19  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 23:07 [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through Yann Dirson
2005-11-17 23:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-19 14:04   ` Yann Dirson
2005-11-19 14:13     ` Yann Dirson
2005-11-19 15:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-19 17:09         ` Yann Dirson
2005-11-19 17:23           ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-11-20  1:24             ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-20  7:32               ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-11-20 11:44                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-20 22:35                   ` Yann Dirson
2005-11-23  3:29                 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-23  7:27                   ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-11-23 17:14                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-20 22:32               ` Yann Dirson
2005-11-20 23:46                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-21  2:24                   ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-11-21  5:18                     ` Ryan Anderson
2005-11-21 22:30                     ` Yann Dirson
2005-11-18 13:57 ` sf
2005-11-18 17:25   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-19  0:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-19  1:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-19  1:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-19  1:29           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-19 13:27           ` Yann Dirson
2005-11-19  1:38   ` Yann Dirson [this message]
2005-11-18 15:54 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-19 13:16   ` Yann Dirson

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