From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:09:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Git commit generation numbers
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1107220907370.1762@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <201107221418.52414.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> BTW. with storing generation number in commit header there is a problem
> what would old version of git, one which does not understand said header,
> do during rebase.  Would it strip unknown headers, or would it copy
> generation number verbatim - which means that it can be incorrect?

They would indeed be copied verbatim and become incorrect.


Nicolas