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Re: working prototype of orphan parent commits as datastores (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)

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MKmartin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
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also sprach Jeff King <peff@peff.net> [2011.08.02.2057 +0200]:
> Look at "git show origin/master" here. It ends up as a combined diff.
> Which is kind of ugly.

Yes, absolutely. However, this would no longer be the case if x-*-ref could be used. Right now, I am just using orphan parent commits to avoid garbage collection.

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  1. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  2. Sverre RabbelierAug 1, 2011
  3. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  4. Clemens BuchacherAug 1, 2011
  5. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  6. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  7. Martin LanghoffAug 1, 2011
  8. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  9. Jeff KingAug 1, 2011
  10. martin f krafftAug 1, 2011
  11. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  12. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  13. working prototype of orphan parent commits as datastores (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)martin f krafft, Aug 2, 2011
  14. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  15. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  16. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  17. Jeff KingAug 2, 2011
  18. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  19. per-ref data storage (was: Storing additional information in commit headers)martin f krafft, Aug 2, 2011
  20. martin f krafftAug 2, 2011
  21. Jeff KingAug 4, 2011
  22. Jeff KingAug 4, 2011
  23. Michael HaggertyAug 2, 2011

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