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Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> That would be really great. A line after "parents" like
> 
> repoid "username/reponame" 
> 
> would be sufficient
> 

Seems like a UUID or a SHA-1 identifier would be better.

However, one can definitely argue that even the meaning of "a 
repository" isn't well-defined in the context of git.

	-hpa