From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:40:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Imports without Tariffs
Message-ID: <20071014164001.GC27595@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <814D00AE-B89A-45ED-A500-4643C825D0EB@mit.edu>

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 07:04:52PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote:

> I can make a patch, but at the moment I'm swamped and I don't want to think
> about doing that.
>
> I'll get around to it eventually, I hope.
>
> Do I just submit the patch to this list? How do I know it will be used?

Yes, send a patch to the list and to Junio (the maintainer).  See
Documentation/SubmittingPatches for details.

> Frankly, I don't know how robust my idea is either, but it's simple
> enough not to have many problems lurking in the shadows.
>
> It would certainly be more useful than not.

Then submit a patch implementing it. :)

>> all of the data that goes into the commit hash as textual comments in
>> the CVS commit (committer name/time, author name/time). And then
> I considered this too, but this exposes what we're doing. We don't
> want the old farts to wonder what all these hash thingies are.

Heh. I like the idea of git secretly infiltrating institutions,
replacing CVS unbeknownst to management. It was the same for Linux in
the mid-90's ("our mail server is running on what!?").

-Peff