From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:44:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Message-ID: <1115858670.22180.259.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <200505111941.04104.dtor_core@ameritech.net>

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:41 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > 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 ?
> 
> I think that an unique repoid should be created automatically every time
> you clone. It is ok for it to go away when you discard a tree, it will just
> identify a line (set) of changes originating from some place.

Yes, as long as you make sure that rsync does _NOT_ pollute/populate it

tglx