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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Survey] Signed push
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:27:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyGRM132OzoJR7wZ8wETvxrFWSmSMjMJnVOKP+6vys-Sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqfwjzxu6i.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>
> Would the notes mechanism be able to annotate ref names instead of
> commit sha1?

That would be a horrible, horrible notion.

It's quite common to have multiple branches with the same SHA1. It
might be in the "experimental-development" branch, but it got through
testing with flying colors and deemed to be stable, so it got upgraded
to the "for-linus" branch, and there hasn't been any other development
since. So now both "for-linus" and "experimental-development" are the
same commit, but they are very much not the same branch!

So no, don't confuse branch *contents* with branch *descriptions*.

                          Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-13 16:45 [Survey] Signed push Junio C Hamano
2011-09-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] State commit name explicitly in request-pull messages Junio C Hamano
2011-09-13 22:28   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] fetch: allow asking for an explicit commit object by name Junio C Hamano
2011-09-13 22:28   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] request-pull: state exact commit object name Junio C Hamano
2011-09-13 23:26 ` [Survey] Signed push Guenter Roeck
2011-09-13 23:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-14  0:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-14  0:31 ` Sam Vilain
2011-09-14  0:39   ` Shawn Pearce
2011-09-14  1:03     ` Sam Vilain
     [not found] ` <CA+55aFxAQTR3sT7gekAD4qih8J+z-qwri7ZmNCPUd811xgci6w@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-14  7:06   ` Fwd: " Linus Torvalds
2011-09-14 10:45     ` Michael Haggerty
2011-09-14 11:03       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-14 11:46         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-09-14 12:28         ` Johan Herland
2011-09-14 12:56           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-14 15:27         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-09-14 15:42           ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-14 16:14           ` Johan Herland
2011-09-14 22:51             ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-14 23:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-14 23:44                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-14 15:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-14 17:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-14 18:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-14 17:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-14 20:52       ` Sam Vilain
2011-09-16 19:04       ` [PATCH v3] request-pull: state what commit to expect Junio C Hamano
2011-09-20 23:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-20 23:02           ` [PATCH 2/3] branch: teach --edit-description option Junio C Hamano
2011-09-21  0:15             ` Andrew Ardill
2011-09-21  2:44               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-20 23:03           ` [PATCH] request-pull: use the branch description Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 22:09           ` [PATCH 0/6] A handful of "branch description" patches Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 22:09             ` [PATCH 1/6] branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 22:09             ` [PATCH 2/6] format-patch: use branch description in cover letter Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 22:09             ` [PATCH 3/6] branch: teach --edit-description option Junio C Hamano
2011-09-23  9:00               ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-23  9:47               ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-09-23 19:04                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-25  5:21                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-09-22 22:09             ` [PATCH 4/6] request-pull: modernize style Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 22:09             ` [PATCH 5/6] request-pull: state what commit to expect Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 22:09             ` [PATCH 6/6] request-pull: use the branch description Junio C Hamano
2011-09-23  8:56             ` [PATCH 0/6] A handful of "branch description" patches Michael J Gruber
2011-09-23 20:18               ` Jeff King
2011-09-23 20:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-23 20:53                   ` Jeff King
2011-09-24 14:42                 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-27 21:58                   ` Jeff King
2011-09-28  4:23                     ` Annotated branch ≈ annotated tag? Michael Haggerty
2011-09-28  7:12                       ` Andrew Ardill
2011-09-28  8:04                         ` Michael Haggerty
2011-09-28  8:58                           ` Branch annotations [Re: Annotated branch ≈ annotated tag?] Michael J Gruber
2011-09-29  6:44                       ` Annotated branch ≈ annotated tag? Jeff King
2011-09-14 11:58 ` [Survey] Signed push Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-09-14 21:05   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-09-14 22:42     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-09-15 17:50       ` Jeff King
2011-09-14 19:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-09-14 20:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-14 20:49     ` Andrew Lutomirski

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