From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: [RFC] Second parent for reverts Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:33:15 +1200 Message-ID: <46a038f90705101533m12957692lea94cce2a416f788@mail.gmail.com> References: <7v7irhslx1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , "Daniel Barkalow" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Linus Torvalds" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 11 00:33:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HmHCK-0001gJ-VA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 00:33:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755011AbXEJWdQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 18:33:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758206AbXEJWdQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 18:33:16 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.229]:35088 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755011AbXEJWdQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 18:33:16 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so696060wxd for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:33:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QhZ+ccM7mLgGE61rxZWR7FIGBMZmob2/TgwQhE5vrpidS6AdgpjkYk+sslKmzc1r9ip/LmRJO0W2yXxCg/qAEO4lWlsahnwQap1saWoDSNdwuUdoDf0IKCiBfJPCgaKp13Aq4d1GvhJOGRP6fgMKJqB3WEAQrJqD9cXHMlk/+eA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tdDZaCsA7Sprc97YVDy+mRW4HJCj+9SGrwu3kBL9Yy3FgPKfo9/H3NnHKDAPfxTKCZzAj/CtWoEkV6F0U4PCj2CEkBc8Br+aOagMPIrlmszHuNkvn7cXu3xpgX1es3OB6EDLm7zV+HcImS+z5qyNkzdbyuWTofJbktBuH/RJ+QY= Received: by 10.90.90.3 with SMTP id n3mr2409606agb.1178836395107; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:33:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.53.18 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:33:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 5/11/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Designing your SCM around the notion > that everybody will use a totally integrated system is a mistake! It's a > *huge* mistake. A huge mistake _everyone else_ makes. git is the only scm that works transparently with everything else -- witness the myriad of importers/exporters/gateways we have, all depending on the fact that git tracks content, and does not get distracted with fancy metadata. cheers martin