From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:14:39 GMT
Subject: Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)?
Message-ID: <20050729071438.GC24895@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.07.28.21.13.35.458701@smurf.noris.de>

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:13:38PM CEST, I got a letter
where Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> told me that...
> Then, you'd kill porcelain writers who don't verify that the old head is
> a(n indirect) parent of the new one. ;-)

send-pack.c:

	if (!ref_newer(new_sha1, ref->old_sha1)) {
		error("remote '%s' isn't a strict parent of local", name);
		continue;
	}

"git-core: Making life nice for Porcelains."

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