Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 14, 2007, 13:41 UTC
Message-ID: <fhettp$rtk$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <87myth58r5.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergei Organov wrote:

> Just a wild idea. Doesn't it make sense to introduce perfect ultimate
> common ancestor of the universe, probably calling it "the NULL commit"?
> At first glance it seems that it can help to avoid corner cases
> automagically.

No. Sometimes you want unrelated branches in repository ('html', 'man', 'todo' branches in git.git), sometimes multiple roots are natural (merging in a project, like git-mailtools, gitweb, gitk, git-gui in git.git).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

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