From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:06:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Git commit generation numbers
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzsZ6w_a_wPEuBjtDeSDYQviVfy9UmJMxPz4geu4CRthQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201107222034.20510.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That is IF unknown headers are copied verbatim during rebase.  For
> "encoding" header this is a good thing, for "generation" it isn't.

Afaik, they aren't copied verbatim, and never have been. Afaik, the
only thing that has *ever* written commits is "commit_tree()"
(originally "main()" in commit-tree.c). Why is this red herring even
being discussed?

Of course you can always generate bogus commits by writing them by
hand. But that's irrelevant.

                     Linus