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Re: History messup

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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
May 11, 2005, 20:31 UTC
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<20050511203122.GD22686@pasky.ji.cz>
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<1115665598.12012.422.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>

Dear diary, on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:06:38PM CEST, I got a letter where David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> told me that...

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> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:01 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Seems like a UUID or a SHA-1 identifier would be better.
> > 
> > However, one can definitely argue that even the meaning of "a 
> > repository" isn't well-defined in the context of git.
> 
> Of course it isn't. But neither is the meaning "a committer" or 
> "an author" or even "a date".
> 
> Including some kind of repo-specific identifier with each commit would
> help us to make sense of the history, just as those other fields do.

FWIW, I recently added .git/branch-name to Cogito, since I needed some identifier through which to differentiate between the branches (repositories - it's all blurred in Cogito view) when sending commits to CIA.

It is strictly per-branch (never to be shared by multiple repositories), optional, informative and more of a temporary solution for now I had to cook together in a minute.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Previous: Thomas Gleixner
Message 11 of 11 in “History messup”
  1. Thomas GleixnerMay 9, 2005
  2. Thomas GlanzmannMay 9, 2005
  3. Thomas GleixnerMay 9, 2005
  4. David WoodhouseMay 9, 2005
  5. Thomas GleixnerMay 9, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2005
  7. David WoodhouseMay 9, 2005
  8. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2005
  9. SeanMay 9, 2005
  10. Thomas GleixnerMay 11, 2005
  11. Petr BaudisMay 11, 2005

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