From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:34:43 GMT
Subject: Re: History messup
Message-ID: <427FBB53.1000801@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <1115665598.12012.422.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> 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