From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:37:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make grafts versionable
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511220136140.6187@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511211326110.13959@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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