Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
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- Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
- Date
- May 11, 2005, 23:38 UTC
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- <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx>
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- <428291CD.7010701@zytor.com>
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I would like to suggest a few limiters are set on the repoid. In > particular, I'd like to suggest that a repoid is a UUID, that a file is > used to track it (.git/repoid), and that if it doesn't exist, a new one > is created from /dev/urandom.
Which is complety error prone due to rsync. Some of the repositories on kernel.org keep identical copies of .git/description already. Why should they preserve an unique .git/repoid ?
There is one clean way to solve this. Managed repository id's and a lot of discipline.
I expect neither of those two things to happen, but a complete working directory path is better than nothing to make educated guesses. Committer names (maintainers) can be the same over repositories, but its unlikely that somebody who manages more than one subsystems uses the same working directory for them.
tglx