From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Cc: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>,
Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recording merges after repo conversion
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:01:28 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710311059020.4362@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710311048450.13264@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>
Hi,
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin:
>
> > Why should it? This would contradict the whole "a commit sha1 hashes
> > the commit, and by inference the _whole_ history" principle.
>
> Does it?
Yes! Of course! If what you want becomes possible, I could make an evil
change in history long gone, and slip it by you. You could not even see
the history which changed.
> Why can't the grafts file itself be committed to the repository and live
> in the history?
You can do that already. But you have to ask the people at the other end
to actually apply the graft.
> Well, yeah, the SHA1 hashing is one of Git's main strengths, but it also
> opens up some weaknesses.
If you really think that, I doubt you understood the issues at hand.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-09 7:09 Recording merges after repo conversion Peter Karlsson
2007-10-09 7:19 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-30 13:34 ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-30 14:29 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-10-30 21:06 ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-30 21:46 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-10-31 2:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-31 9:50 ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-31 11:01 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-10-31 12:07 ` Peter Karlsson
2007-10-31 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-31 12:43 ` Johan Herland
2007-10-31 13:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-31 14:37 ` Johan Herland
2007-10-31 15:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-31 15:21 ` Johan Herland
2007-10-31 15:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-31 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 17:08 ` Johan Herland
2007-10-30 15:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-31 12:17 ` Peter Karlsson
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