From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:33:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Message-ID: <1115858022.22180.256.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <428297DB.8030905@zytor.com>

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:40 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> I can tell you what would happen in at least my case: you'll see each 
> "repository" with about 23 different IDs.

You won. :)

So what alternatives do we have ?

- commit history per repository
  .git/head-history               rsync and user error prone 
- .git/repoid                     rsync error prone
- GIT_REPO_ID=xyz                 user  error prone
- directory name based guessing   hpa error prone

What's your preferred error scenario ?

tglx