Re: [PATCH 19/19] gitweb: Remove creating directory for temporary files

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 26, 2006, 05:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejv43wq9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550608252144p2d234a7cnf2ca2922c98d921b@mail.gmail.com>

"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:

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>> > - Original code lines, ie. imported at the beginning and never
>> > modified, perhaps it is better to view without commit number, this
>> > could obfuscate the view and in any case is not an accurate info
>> > because the line was not modified during initial patch.
>>
>> That holds only true for very young projects, or ones that were
>> perfect from the beginning and did not see much action ;-).
>
> Or also for projects like Linux ;-)
>
> See blame output of something like kernel/dma.c or also kernel/exit.c,
> not exactly the most unknown files around.

Actually Linux git archive _is_ a special, odd-ball case. Their initial commit (2.6.12-rc2) contains all the fruits from their 10 years of evolution without git.

People with long history stored in some SCM tend to want to migrate their history and then switch, and I expect that to be the norm, especially with the progress Mozilla import team is making with the CVS interface.