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Re: Git commit generation numbers

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 14, 2011, 18:52 UTC
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> There's also one other issue with generation numbers. How do you handle
> grafts and object-replacement refs?  If you graft history, your embedded
> generation numbers will all be junk, and you can't trust them.
So I don't think this is a real problem in practice.

Grafts are already unreliable. You cannot sanely merge over a graft, and it has nothing to do with generation numbers.

I'm actually sorry that we ever did grafting. It's fundamentally broken, and can actually destroy your repository (by hiding real parents and then causing the commits to get garbage collected). So I don't think grafting should be used as an argument for or against anything - it's a hack that breaks some fundamental git database constraints.

                             Linus
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