From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:05:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Message-ID: <1115849141.22180.123.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <2780.10.10.10.24.1115848852.squirrel@linux1>

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 18:00 -0400, Sean wrote:
> To make this useful you're also going to have to change the parent entries
> to something like:
> 
> parent SHA1 REPOID
> 
> At least when the referenced commit has a repoid that doesn't match the
> repository from which you obtained the object, ie. fast forward heads. 
> This implies that you know the repoid of the repository you pulled the
> object from!
> 
> Otherwise, you still haven't solved the problem of identifying fast
> forward heads as you traverse the history.

Err, 
each parent is a commit, which is identified by its repoid. Why do you
want to add redundant information ?

tglx