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Re: History messup

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
May 9, 2005, 19:06 UTC
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<1115665598.12012.422.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
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On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:01 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Seems like a UUID or a SHA-1 identifier would be better.
> 
> However, one can definitely argue that even the meaning of "a 
> repository" isn't well-defined in the context of git.

Of course it isn't. But neither is the meaning "a committer" or "an author" or even "a date".

Including some kind of repo-specific identifier with each commit would help us to make sense of the history, just as those other fields do.

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dwmw2
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  4. David WoodhouseMay 9, 2005
  5. Thomas GleixnerMay 9, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2005
  7. David WoodhouseMay 9, 2005
  8. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2005
  9. SeanMay 9, 2005
  10. Thomas GleixnerMay 11, 2005
  11. Petr BaudisMay 11, 2005

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