From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20060425035421.18382.51677.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <7v7j5e2jv7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 25 20:07:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYRvr-0006tn-8n for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:06:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932123AbWDYSGh (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:06:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932127AbWDYSGg (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:06:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60850 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932123AbWDYSGg (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:06:36 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3PI6XtH017211 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:06:34 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k3PI6WnP032089; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:06:33 -0700 To: Jakub Narebski In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.74__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.134 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The "track it with pull/push" thing is NOT one such thing, however much > you protest. We already _have_ that thing. It's called a "ref", and it's > really really easy to create anywhere in .git/refs/, and the tools already > know how to use it. Btw, there are other cases for that. For example, "parent" is a well-specified thing that actually has very clear and unambiguous meaning. And we had a much better proposals (in the sense that it had real suggested _meaning_ and semantics) over the last few months for things like sub-projects (trees that point to other commits) or last year a discussion about "container objects" (like the current tags, but listing multiple objects instead of just one). All of which had clear and unambiguous semantics (but were not done for other reasons - maybe the sub-project still remains on the horizon, the "container objects" thing doesn't seem to have gone anywhere). Linus