From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:44:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Message-ID: <2997.10.10.10.24.1115855049.squirrel@linux1>
In-Reply-To: <1115854419.22180.196.camel@tglx>

On Wed, May 11, 2005 7:33 pm, Thomas Gleixner said:

> He? What the hell have the sparc-2.6 and net-2.6 in common except the
> same owner/maintainer ? Should we base the heuristics on directories and
> filenames ? Cool.

What problem are you trying to solve?  Has dave or russell or anybody with
multiple repositories given you reason to think they have a problem
tracking their personal repositories?   I doubt it very much.

>> The only point would be to show chain of command, but you don't seem
>> interested in that.
>
> What is the chain of commands good for ? Does the chain of commands
> change the history information in a specific repository ?

The chain of command might be good to know in the same way that an
accurate signed-off-by chain is good to know.

> No.

Yes.  Not that I care personally very much.

> If you buy food, then it is relevant if you get it from A directly or
> via B. The commit and the referenced tree is immutable and does neither
> change the consistency nor gets uneatable.

Lol..

> True, but not with a plain rsync approach

Agreed.

Sean.