Re: Git commit generation numbers

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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That is IF unknown headers are copied verbatim during rebase.  For
> "encoding" header this is a good thing, for "generation" it isn't.

Afaik, they aren't copied verbatim, and never have been. Afaik, the
only thing that has *ever* written commits is "commit_tree()"
(originally "main()" in commit-tree.c). Why is this red herring even
being discussed?

Of course you can always generate bogus commits by writing them by
hand. But that's irrelevant.

                     Linus
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