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Re: [darcs-devel] Darcs and git: plan of action

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David Roundy <droundy@abridgegame.org>
Date
Apr 20, 2005, 11:18 UTC
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<20050420111847.GF29945@abridgegame.org>
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<20050419122518.GD12757@pasky.ji.cz>
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:25:18PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:20:55PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr> 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.

Incidentally (and completely off-topic for this thread), wouldn't there be a sha1 tree hash corresponding to a completely empty directory, and couldn't one use that as the parent for the root? Would there be any reason to do so? Just a silly thought...

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David Roundy
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  1. David RoundyApr 18, 2005
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  5. Tupshin HarperApr 19, 2005
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  7. David RoundyApr 20, 2005
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  12. Ray LeeApr 20, 2005
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