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Re: [RFC/WIP] range-diff: show old/new blob OIDs in comments

From
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
Oct 22, 2019, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID
<20191022193558.GC4960@chatter.i7.local>
In-Reply-To
<nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1910222111430.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 09:18:35PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>As to recreating blobs from mails: Wow. That's quite a length you're
>going, and I think it is a shame that you have to. If only every
>contribution came accompanied with a pullable branch in a public
>repository.

Trouble is, those public repositories are transient and may be gone soon after the pull request is performed. The goal is to be able to reconstruct full code history prior to when it is merged into the official repository.

>Instead, we will have to rely on your centralized, non-distributed
>service...

It's actually neither, because mirroring and distributing public-inbox repositories is already easy, and we hope to make it easier in the near future.

-K
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  1. Eric WongOct 17, 2019
  2. Johannes SchindelinOct 22, 2019
  3. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 22, 2019
  4. Eric WongOct 23, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2019
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 24, 2019
  7. Eric WongOct 25, 2019
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 25, 2019
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