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Re: [RFC] Make grafts versionable

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 22, 2005, 00:37 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511220136140.6187@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0511211326110.13959@g5.osdl.org>
Hi,
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> In general, making any internal git data versionable is very confusing. So 
> you make the grafts file versionable - that suddenly means that different 
> branches may have different parents for the same commit. And that 
> depending on which branch you have checked out, git-fsck-cache may result 
> in an error, or it may not. That's _nasty_, in my opinion.

Yes, that is nasty. It does not reflect my normal usage pattern, but that does not make it better. So let's forget about that idea of mine.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 5 of 5 in “[RFC] Make grafts versionable”
  1. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2005
  2. H. Peter AnvinNov 21, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsNov 21, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinNov 21, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 22, 2005

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