From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sean" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:24:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3745.10.10.10.24.1115897090.squirrel@linux1> References: <1115847510.22180.108.camel@tglx> <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com> <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> <428297DB.8030905@zytor.com> <1115858022.22180.256.camel@tglx> <7vekcdmd16.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1115884637.22180.277.camel@tglx> <1895.10.10.10.24.1115890333.squirrel@linux1> <1115890792.22180.306.camel@tglx> <3656.10.10.10.24.1115891188.squirrel@linux1> <1115896713.22180.314.camel@tglx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , "H. Peter Anvin" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 13:17:59 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWBgt-0002uj-1a for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:17:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261435AbVELLYy (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 07:24:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261443AbVELLYy (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 07:24:54 -0400 Received: from simmts7.bellnexxia.net ([206.47.199.165]:35508 "EHLO simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261435AbVELLYv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 07:24:51 -0400 Received: from linux1 ([69.156.111.46]) by simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050512112450.RKYW23474.simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net@linux1>; Thu, 12 May 2005 07:24:50 -0400 Received: from linux1 (linux1.attic.local [127.0.0.1]) by linux1 (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4CBOoPk011372; Thu, 12 May 2005 07:24:50 -0400 Received: from 10.10.10.24 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sean) by linux1 with HTTP; Thu, 12 May 2005 07:24:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1115896713.22180.314.camel@tglx> To: tglx@linutronix.de User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-2 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 12, 2005 7:18 am, Thomas Gleixner said: > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 05:46 -0400, Sean wrote: >> On Thu, May 12, 2005 5:39 am, Thomas Gleixner said: >> >> > Please do the complete test. Sync test2 with test1 and show me the >> > picture there. It will be the same as you see in test1, which is wrong >> >> It will get the fast forward head from test1, and so it _should_ show >> the >> exact same thing! The repositories are in sync, they should display the >> exact same way. What is the problem? > > What you see is a clone and not a sync / merge. > Right, that's what a fast forward head is. It replaces a sync / merge and the trees become exactly syncronized via a shared head. I have mixed feelings about fast forward heads, but they don't hide _too_ much information. Is there any _useful_ question you can ask where the answer is lost for all time because of this. Sean