Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 10, 2008, 15:37 UTC
Message-ID: <48C7E9A1.5080409@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809100830570.3384@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Not really local data.  More like _weakly referenced_ data.  If it is
>> there, cool.  If it is not there, no big deal.
> 
> You think it's "cool".
> 
> I think it is "unreliable, random, and depends on the phase of the moon".

I think that shallow clones are not any different from this. If the required piece of history is there, cool. If they're not there, no big deal.

I understood the hyperbole, but I think that it's not unreliable, because all it relies on is the uniqueness of SHA1 values.

Paolo

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