Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: May 11, 2005, 23:01 UTC
Message-ID: <2883.10.10.10.24.1115852463.squirrel@linux1>
In-Reply-To: <1115851718.22180.153.camel@tglx>

On Wed, May 11, 2005 6:48 pm, Thomas Gleixner said:

Hey Thomas,

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> Maybe you have missed the point, where one Committer holds more than one
> repository. See davem/net-2.6 and davem/sparc-2.6. Not to talk of
> Russell King's and Greg's multiple repositories.
> The Author is irrelevant, because one Author sends patches to more than
> one maintainer. Author _cannot_ be a source of tracking information. If
> you want to do heuristic guesses on Author/Committer pairs, then you
> make the situation more complex than it is already.

Why would anyone care how many repositories Russell or Greg use? Why does anyone care if Dave used his repo A, B, or C? Aren't I still just going to contact him via his author email addy if I have an issue with an object he has added to the stream?

And if I do care which repo he used, why don't I care about the case i've outlined where the chain of command information is lost?

> As I said before it is completely irrelevant whether fast forward was
> pulled into C directly from A or from B.
>
> Whats the relevant content of getting the same thing from A or B ?

Exactly!!! So what is relevant of getting the same thing from Dave's A or B? The only point would be to show chain of command, but you don't seem interested in that.

> If you want to do this, you break the fast forward mechanism and
> reinvent the pull ping-pong which is avoided by the fast forwards.

Yes, I think there are other ways to avoid the ping pong too.

Sean