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 18:09:39 -0700 Message-ID: <4282ACD3.50009@zytor.com> References: <1115847510.22180.108.camel@tglx> <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com> <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> <200505111941.04104.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <1115858670.22180.259.camel@tglx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 12 03:02:37 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW25s-0001xw-P8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 03:02:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261286AbVELBKA (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 21:10:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261293AbVELBKA (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 21:10:00 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:19387 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261286AbVELBJy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 21:09:54 -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 j4C19jMR023850 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 May 2005 18:09:45 -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: <1115858670.22180.259.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: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:41 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov 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 ? >> >>I think that an unique repoid should be created automatically every time >>you clone. It is ok for it to go away when you discard a tree, it will just >>identify a line (set) of changes originating from some place. > > > Yes, as long as you make sure that rsync does _NOT_ pollute/populate it > You shouldn't be rsyncing the .git directory, only .git/objects anyway. Some people seem to have merely copied Linus' entire tree, and that's what causing problems. That one you can't win. -hpa