From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:51:49 GMT
Subject: Re: hmm, can't we give the "root" a parent?
Message-ID: <20050912235149.GA10513@vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121608130.3266@g5.osdl.org>

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:09:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > 
> > And I would prefer --pretty=raw with '\0' termination instead of '\n' so I can
> > replace the output from --header with --pretty=raw and can still use the same
> > parsing routine.
> 
> It struck me that "--header" works fine with "--parents".
> 
> So if you're currently already using "git-rev-list --header" and parsing 
> that, just add "--parents" and off you go. That's basically the same as 
> --pretty=raw + zero-termination.

Yeah, got the same idea. :) Have it already working. With the history tree
plugged in after "Linux 2.6.12-rc2":
   http://ehlo.org/~kay/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=2d137c24e9f433e37ffd10b3d5f418157589a8d2

Grafting worked pretty nice by just doing:
  echo "8d38eadb7a97f265f7b3a9e8a30df358c3a546c8 e7e173af42dbf37b1d946f9ee00219cb3b2bea6a" > $LOCALROOT/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/info/grafts
  echo $LOCALROOT/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/objects > $LOCALROOT/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects/info/alternates

Thanks,
Kay