From: Dmitry Torokhov Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:41:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit Message-ID: <200505111941.04104.dtor_core@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <1115854733.22180.202.camel@tglx> On Wednesday 11 May 2005 18:38, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I would like to suggest a few limiters are set on the repoid.  In > > particular, I'd like to suggest that a repoid is a UUID, that a file is > > used to track it (.git/repoid), and that if it doesn't exist, a new one > > is created from /dev/urandom. > > 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. -- Dmitry