From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: jk/tag-contains Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:38:41 -0700 Message-ID: <7vbp9kk5ce.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vvd7zuecv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100730183709.GC18544@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20100731060703.GA21207@burratino> <20100731123328.GA5273@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vocdlpsmw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100802200209.GD2180@burratino> <20100802201920.GE2180@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthieu Moy , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 03 00:39:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og3eu-00042X-JB for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:39:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753344Ab0HBWi4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:38:56 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:64759 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752046Ab0HBWiz (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:38:55 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF210C981C; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:38:52 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=shIMWyR+xGzNwl2i8XEPW0wD+pQ=; b=O3JYTT RmFZUAXnjROUJqy4jBAhgOBHmUoUEGN4mDqoe4xH0Z89WPGMneCP9UiOBpQ6R4Kf guG/xzyVBq5qfuLk+vpNyuT5ZjG5OVS3atYnuR4eTGHQTQ/JuxaXzUQRG701S1sM 54Ko5GiXU+O6QmZjx4u0sthNiGVjL43tu3YNc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=XAwSDGSrsJ4uadbSYYwOXIfhQ/+7b9Ln vEkVyYKWHMncdBUC80m/QKBekcTy0gldLKpqpwuRAsV/C4GEp7x+ZC+5BWDdsnp6 kDDSvIqc6fwXdVadz/MglIccM1WWrZEsf9BvKOTHv6NUCE2mRxITF4oPFryDX0QU kHeLiH29tnc= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DC4C9816; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:38:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [69.181.135.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7BAE3C9808; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:38:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20100802201920.GE2180@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon\, 2 Aug 2010 15\:19\:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B77382B0-9E86-11DF-8D4B-9056EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: > I would like it to still be possible to publically acknowledge a > mistake, make people rewrite their history to remove it, and move on. While I wish the world were that simple, I do not think that is viable. You may not have any control over your upstream (not to mention the possibility that the upstream might even be a foreign SCM). So I'd prefer to see us prepared to be lenient with what we accept from outside world.