From: "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:09:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4776.10.10.10.24.1115932163.squirrel@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115930845.11872.79.camel@tglx>
On Thu, May 12, 2005 4:47 pm, Thomas Gleixner said:
> As I said before timestamps can be a horrid source of information. Also
> if you keep a list of commits merges and head forwards in timed order it
> is simple to read the repository history, but in case of corruption you
> have to reconstruct it manually. There is no way to do so with the
> information available.
>
> Repository id's can be lost, but are simple to replace as they are
> recorded in the commit blob.
And the time is recorded on the commit blob too. In case of corruption,
restore the blobs from backup, you get everything back. Corruption can
wipe out repoids and complete git objects too, you had better have
backups. Repoids offer no protection from corruption or otherwise lost
blobs.
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-12 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-11 21:38 [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 22:00 ` Sean
2005-05-11 22:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 22:24 ` Sean
2005-05-11 22:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 22:36 ` Sean
2005-05-11 22:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 23:01 ` Sean
2005-05-11 23:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 23:44 ` Sean
2005-05-12 0:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 0:45 ` Sean
2005-05-12 0:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 0:58 ` Sean
2005-05-12 10:07 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-12 10:18 ` Sean
2005-05-12 10:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 10:43 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-12 10:58 ` Sean
2005-05-12 10:39 ` Sean
2005-05-11 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-11 23:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-11 23:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-11 23:45 ` Sean
2005-05-12 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-12 0:20 ` Sean
2005-05-12 0:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 1:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 7:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 9:32 ` Sean
2005-05-12 9:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 9:46 ` Sean
2005-05-12 11:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 11:24 ` Sean
2005-05-12 11:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 11:48 ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 12:16 ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 12:35 ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:17 ` Sean
2005-05-12 12:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-12 12:32 ` Sean
2005-05-12 13:29 ` Jan Harkes
2005-05-12 15:44 ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 15:48 ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 15:50 ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 16:20 ` Jan Harkes
2005-05-12 17:09 ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 17:12 ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 17:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 18:18 ` Sean
2005-05-12 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 19:35 ` Sean
2005-05-12 20:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 21:09 ` Sean [this message]
2005-05-12 21:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 21:32 ` Sean
2005-05-12 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 22:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 22:24 ` Sean
2005-05-12 0:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-12 0:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-12 1:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-12 1:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-12 3:30 ` Joel Becker
2005-05-12 9:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-13 1:37 ` [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit [its a workspace id, isn't it?] Jon Seymour
2005-05-13 8:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-13 22:25 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-13 22:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-13 23:39 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-13 23:49 ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-14 5:02 ` Jon Seymour
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