From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:43:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Message-ID: <1115898230.11872.8.camel@tglx>
In-Reply-To: <3745.10.10.10.24.1115897090.squirrel@linux1>

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 07:24 -0400, Sean wrote:
> Right, that's what a fast forward head is.  It replaces a sync / merge and
> the  trees become exactly syncronized via a shared head.   I have mixed
> feelings about fast forward heads, but they don't hide _too_ much
> information.  

The question is how hard it is to do a reconstruction. In the current
state automatic reconstruction is simply not possible. 

> Is there any _useful_ question you can ask where the answer
> is lost for all time because of this.

I want to see the history of _any_ repository in the order of  changes
in the specific repository. The fast forward heads without additional
information simply do not allow this. 

I want to see the history of a file in the correct order. The current
solution ends up with useless file version diffs or annotates where
changes are shown in random order and therefor worthless.

tglx