From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:40:11 -0700 Message-ID: <428297DB.8030905@zytor.com> References: <1115847510.22180.108.camel@tglx> <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com> <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 01:33:21 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW0hE-0001ls-L6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:32:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261321AbVEKXk0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 19:40:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261323AbVEKXk0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 19:40:26 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:60600 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261321AbVEKXkW (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 19:40:22 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4BNeGbP022177 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 May 2005 16:40:17 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: tglx@linutronix.de In-Reply-To: <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Which is complety error prone due to rsync. Some of the repositories on > kernel.org keep identical copies of .git/description already. Why should > they preserve an unique .git/repoid ? > > There is one clean way to solve this. Managed repository id's and a lot > of discipline. > > I expect neither of those two things to happen, but a complete working > directory path is better than nothing to make educated guesses. > Committer names (maintainers) can be the same over repositories, but its > unlikely that somebody who manages more than one subsystems uses the > same working directory for them. > I can tell you what would happen in at least my case: you'll see each "repository" with about 23 different IDs. -hpa