From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 17:48:23 GMT
Subject: Re: History messup
Message-ID: <1115660903.19236.39.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <1115659677.16187.393.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:59 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> It's normal practice, and it _has_ to be the case. Otherwise the trees
> would never stabilise -- every time Linus pulled from my tree he would
> create a merge-commit which I don't yet have, and vice versa.

Sure

> Unless a commit also carries a unique repo-id identifying the repository
> in which it originally occurred, you'll only ever be able to track
> history in the way people want by means of heuristics.

That would be really great. A line after "parents" like

repoid "username/reponame" 

would be sufficient

tglx