From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:25:18 GMT Subject: Re: [darcs-devel] Darcs and git: plan of action Message-ID: <20050419122518.GD12757@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <7i4qe3x8ig.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr> Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:20:55PM CEST, I got a letter where Juliusz Chroboczek told me that... > > The problem is that there is no sequence of alien versions that one can > > differentiate. Git has a branched history, with each version that follows > > a merge having multiple parents. > > Yep. I've just realised that this morning. Is there some notion of > ``primary parent'' as in Arch? Can a changeset have 0 parents? Yes, the root commit. Usually, there is only one, but there may be multiple of them theoretically. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor