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History messup

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TGThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date
May 9, 2005, 16:59 UTC
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<1115657971.19236.33.camel@tglx>
Hi,

I wrote a git repository tracker, which can track and coordinate multiple git repositories. Before it goes public, I want to clarify a problem which I encountered

The commit bfd4bda097f8758d28e632ff2035e25577f6b060 by David Woodhouse (Thu May 5 12:59:37 2005 +100) Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 

breaks the history.

David merged from Linus repository . Linus synced later with David. Linus did not create a new commit for this update and just pointed his "HEAD" to Davids "HEAD", which means he forked Davids repository at this point.

Due to that the parent->parent history is not longer unique. This makes it impossible to do file revision graphs over the various repositories in the correct order.

Is this a unique problem or is the omission of a commit in cases like that usual practice ? In the latter case proper history tracking is almost impossible.

tglx
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