On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:28:45AM -0400 I heard the voice of Sean, and lo! it spake thus: > > Sure, but if they're just a local feature then why propagate them > with the distributed data? Because they're 'local' to a given "branch"; see my message to cworth a little while ago for expansion of the rather particular meaning of the word used here. If somebody takes a clone of my _branch_, it's the same "branch", so the numbers will be the same (and that's desired). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html