From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:30:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Add "--show-all" revision walker flag for debugging
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802100130090.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802092016540.2732@xanadu.home>

Hi,

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> I, too, have some reservations about adding any kind of generation 
> header to commit objects.  First because it can be generated and 
> maintained locally, just like the pack index.  But also because its 
> usefulness has not been proven in all possible graph topologies, and 
> adding it to the commit header pretty much deny any further 
> modifications/improvements on it, if for example some other kind of 
> generation notation becomes advantageous to use.

I fully agree.

Ciao,
Dscho