From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: Advice on converting to git from versioning-by-directory Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:09:39 +0000 Message-ID: <200611231009.40637.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200611230916.46415.andyparkins@gmail.com> <456570BE.5040702@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=VjsEc3TOyC9518qmlIAbC8yG+GXU0WQWPXImfekgV+8LRDDnTvBvLvKIgObY5ZQ4qQwpgBNydkSuT3IY2rxxr4+bVVm8cAl8/QuRsFwnhq3Y0b2d83Yk79ltdFadEaCTz/ysCiRG5a31bgNCvEayasE9VENLRKEqG6Nb5ecAs8o= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <456570BE.5040702@shadowen.org> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnBWg-00040C-G8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:09:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757322AbWKWKJq (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:09:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757325AbWKWKJp (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:09:45 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:53024 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757322AbWKWKJp (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:09:45 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so396126uga for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.119.9 with SMTP id w9mr4939438ugm.1164276583766; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id y1sm2337795uge.2006.11.23.02.09.43; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:09:43 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 2006 November 23 09:58, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Ok, why is this so different from any normal SVN repository? > Yes your branches are in the 'wrong' place. But they behave as you'd > expect don't they? Each one has linear history from its appearance, What an absolutely excellent idea. It's so obvious now you say it, but all the best ideas are. > No idea if thats any use... It's of enormous use. Thank you very much. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE