From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:09:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFD] Add repoid identifier to commit
Message-ID: <4282ACD3.50009@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <1115858670.22180.259.camel@tglx>

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:41 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
>>>Which is complety error prone due to rsync. Some of the repositories on
>>>kernel.org keep identical copies of .git/description already. Why should
>>>they preserve an unique .git/repoid ?
>>
>>I think that an unique repoid should be created automatically every time
>>you clone. It is ok for it to go away when you discard a tree, it will just
>>identify a line (set) of changes originating from some place.
> 
> 
> Yes, as long as you make sure that rsync does _NOT_ pollute/populate it
> 

You shouldn't be rsyncing the .git directory, only .git/objects anyway. 
   Some people seem to have merely copied Linus' entire tree, and that's 
what causing problems.

That one you can't win.

	-hpa