From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:54:55 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull for update of netdev fails.
Message-ID: <20060924205455.GA20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0609230610h46ffb995gb25ebda8332570e8@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:10:17PM CEST, I got a letter
where Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> said that...
> (I'm slow at replying and even slower at implementing anything over
> the next 2-3 weeks - paternity leave :-))

Congratulations! :-)

> I wasn't following this thread (well, any thread in the last days) but
> the current patch history implementation in StGIT is prune-safe as it
> generates additional commits to keep the history. If you undo an
> operation (push, refresh), the undo will be recorded in the patch
> history (that's really immutable)

It does not directly reference the history in the additional commits
though, it just mentions the sha1 in the log message - that is not
prune-safe:

$ cg-log -r patches/master/configchanges.log
...pick one at random...
commit 4e1ad4b1bfb9488636f1a43b3f3d4b8c3b4b2927
tree 4ba8253dff8190e75ad0f46deaef54747c4ad76d
parent 3d5f3a87134a056a52dc21bcc4b1c64a4eef9443
author pasky <pasky@rover.(none)> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:47:42 +0200
committer pasky <pasky@rover.(none)> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:47:42 +0200

    * Makefile:

    refresh     4852cc3fe638b332f4106b31a7abfafb2c6c3dfc
$ git-fsck-objects --unreachable | grep
4852cc3fe638b332f4106b31a7abfafb2c6c3dfc
unreachable commit 4852cc3fe638b332f4106b31a7abfafb2c6c3dfc

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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