From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:52:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080616195252.GA18848@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616112709.GG12260@mit.edu>
* Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > ( Also, it's a GPL nitpicky issue: the conflict resolution database
> > can be argued to be part of "source code" and as such it should be
> > shared with everyone who asks. With trivial merges the data is
> > probably not copyrightable hence probably falls outside the scope
> > of the GPL, but with a complex topic tree like -tip with dozens of
> > conflict resolutions, the boundary is perhaps more blurred. )
>
> For a more complex merge resolution, granted that it rises to the
> level of being "copyrightable", but I think it would be a huge stretch
> to call the rr-cache the "preferred form for modifications"! :-)
yeah - i'm not really arguing any detail of the GPL here. I'm arguing
the principle: there should be no technical assymetry between maintainer
and contributor. So if i am able to run an effort-free integration of 85
topic branches, i'd like contributors (who will eventually grow up into
co-maintainer roles in the future) to be able to do the same, if they
want to do so.
right now that is simply not possible technically - it's even very hard
to share a .git/rr-cache with a co-maintainer whom i can trust with my
index file. (which is an otherwise unsafe private binary cache that i'd
not put into a public repository as it could in theory contain lots of
unrelated data and is not endian-safe, etc.)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 11:01 git-rerere observations and feature suggestions Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 11:09 ` Mike Hommey
2008-06-16 15:48 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-06-16 15:57 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-06-16 16:18 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-17 7:37 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-16 11:26 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-16 11:27 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-16 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-16 19:52 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-06-16 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 20:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 21:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 18:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:47 ` [PATCH 1/5] rerere: rerere_created_at() and has_resolution() abstraction Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] git-rerere: detect unparsable conflicts Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] rerere: remove dubious "tail_optimization" Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] t4200: fix rerere test Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] rerere.autoupdate Junio C Hamano
2008-06-18 10:57 ` git-rerere observations and feature suggestions Ingo Molnar
2008-06-18 11:29 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-18 18:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-18 19:53 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-18 11:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-18 22:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-18 22:38 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 7:23 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-19 7:29 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 7:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-19 8:21 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-19 8:33 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 9:19 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-19 10:06 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 10:35 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-16 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 19:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-23 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-23 14:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-23 14:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-23 15:12 ` Jeff King
2008-06-23 15:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 20:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-17 10:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
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