Re: Recording merges after repo conversion

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 31, 2007, 11:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710311059020.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710311048450.13264@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>

Hi,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Peter Karlsson wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin:
> 
> > Why should it?  This would contradict the whole "a commit sha1 hashes 
> > the commit, and by inference the _whole_ history" principle.
> 
> Does it?

Yes! Of course! If what you want becomes possible, I could make an evil change in history long gone, and slip it by you. You could not even see the history which changed.

> Why can't the grafts file itself be committed to the repository and live 
> in the history?

You can do that already. But you have to ask the people at the other end to actually apply the graft.

> Well, yeah, the SHA1 hashing is one of Git's main strengths, but it also
> opens up some weaknesses.

If you really think that, I doubt you understood the issues at hand.

Ciao, Dscho