From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories? Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:41:13 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <86k5on8v6p.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20071112131927.GA1701@c3sl.ufpr.br> <200711121719.54146.wielemak@science.uva.nl> <18232.35893.243300.179076@lisa.zopyra.com> <7v4pfr2kmh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <87myth58r5.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 14 14:42:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IsIVh-0005EA-U0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:42:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754446AbXKNNlq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:41:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752839AbXKNNlq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:41:46 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42208 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753889AbXKNNlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:41:45 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IsIUn-0005qY-N9 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:41:33 +0000 Received: from abwy6.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.248.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:41:33 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abwy6.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:41:33 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abwy6.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sergei Organov wrote: > Just a wild idea. Doesn't it make sense to introduce perfect ultimate > common ancestor of the universe, probably calling it "the NULL commit"? > At first glance it seems that it can help to avoid corner cases > automagically. No. Sometimes you want unrelated branches in repository ('html', 'man', 'todo' branches in git.git), sometimes multiple roots are natural (merging in a project, like git-mailtools, gitweb, gitk, git-gui in git.git). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git