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Re: SCSI trees, merges and git status

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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Apr 19, 2005, 00:10 UTC
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On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:03 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Git does work like BK in the way that you cannot remove history when you
> have distributed it. Once it's there, it's there.

But older history can be pruned, and there's really no reason why an http-based 'git pull' couldn't simply refrain from fetching commits older than a certain threshold.

However, we can't _add_ the history if the current commits don't refer to it. I really think we should take the imported git history and make our 'current' tree refer to it -- even if just by having an appropriate 'parent' record in what is currently the oldest changeset in our tree; the 2.6.12-rc2 import.

It doesn't matter that our oldest commit object refers to a nonexistent parent, but that does allow us to import historical data if we _want_ to, and have it all work properly.

We should have the full historical git repo available within a day or so, I believe. It would be really useful if we could make the current trees refer back to that, instead of starting at 2.6.12-rc2.

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dwmw2
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