From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] Make grafts versionable Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:04:20 -0800 Message-ID: <43823654.2060904@zytor.com> References: 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 Mon Nov 21 22:06:19 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EeIqT-0005Px-4T for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:05:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750702AbVKUVE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:04:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750708AbVKUVE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:04:58 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:6297 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702AbVKUVE5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:04:57 -0500 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jALL4QOO030217 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:04:27 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Johannes Schindelin In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > ... by moving the location from .git/info/grafts to .gitgrafts. This > allows checking it in like .gitignore, and sure enough also pulling it (as > well as knowing who the heck added that particular graft anyway). This is problematic, because it means something that isn't in GIT_DIR affects its interpretation. I would say that that is a showstopper. One could even argue that it's incorrect, since it would mean different points on the history have different grafts. Now, CVS has a reserved namespace (CVSROOT/) for things under version control which are still significant to CVS. The logical equivalent to git would be to have .git/ be such a namespace, if it makes sense. -hpa