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Re: History messup

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
May 9, 2005, 19:34 UTC
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David Woodhouse wrote:
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> 
> Of course it isn't. But neither is the meaning "a committer" or 
> "an author" or even "a date".
> 
> Including some kind of repo-specific identifier with each commit would
> help us to make sense of the history, just as those other fields do.
>

I'm particularly thinking of when you copy and clone directories, you have to define your semantics more specifically. When do you want to *copy* this ID, and when do you want to make sure a new one is created?

One possible answer to that is to have .git/repoid and have it auto-created (from /dev/urandom) if it doesn't exist, but I also observe that at least two people (davem and pavel) have managed to clone "Linus' kernel tree" as their description on http://www.kernel.org/git/ ...

	-hpa
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  1. Thomas GleixnerMay 9, 2005
  2. Thomas GlanzmannMay 9, 2005
  3. Thomas GleixnerMay 9, 2005
  4. David WoodhouseMay 9, 2005
  5. Thomas GleixnerMay 9, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2005
  7. David WoodhouseMay 9, 2005
  8. H. Peter AnvinMay 9, 2005
  9. SeanMay 9, 2005
  10. Thomas GleixnerMay 11, 2005
  11. Petr BaudisMay 11, 2005

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