Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: May 12, 2005, 00:30 UTC
Message-ID: <1115857838.22180.250.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <2997.10.10.10.24.1115855049.squirrel@linux1>

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:44 -0400, Sean wrote:

> What problem are you trying to solve?

The problem to explain the obvious facts to an agnostic

> Has dave or russell or anybody with
> multiple repositories given you reason to think they have a problem
> tracking their personal repositories?   I doubt it very much.

Aarg. Did you ever get in contact with QA departements ?

Assume you have:  bugfix - stable - devel repositories.

You have to track down a problem in bugfix and the source of it. It does not matter whether the maintainer of "bugfix" pulled it from devel or from stable. It's his fault anyway.

But we are not talking about faults and guiltiness. We want to identify the location and the context _where_ and _why_ this change was created.

The current solution of git makes it impossible to retrieve this information in a consistent way.

So you have no quick solution to figure out what happened. Quite contrary, you have to dissect inconsistent information.

See also the thread about "Stop git-rev-list at sha1 match".

> The chain of command might be good to know in the same way that an
> accurate signed-off-by chain is good to know.

This sentence makes me guess, that you actually are working in a QA departement and therefor trying to maximize the amount of irrelevant information.

tglx