Re: [RFC] Applying a graft to a tree and "rippling" the changes through

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Nov 19, 2005, 01:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20051119013837.GA3393@nowhere.earth>
In-Reply-To: <437DDDB1.60103@b-i-t.de>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:57:05PM +0100, sf wrote:

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> >Indeed that emphasizes that the history lines are on living on a
> >higher level of abstraction that commits.  Now what if we used
> >trees->tree commits, instead of the current commits->tree ones ?  The
> >main problem would be to be able to reconstruct those history lines,
> >so that we can still extract the log - what's a better model if we
> >loose functionnality ? ;)
> 
> You can traverse tree -> commit -> tree -> commit -> tree ... to get the 
> history. No functionality lost.

No, that would require that a tree knows about the commits leading to it, which would mix levels of abstraction as well.

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