On May 27, 2020 11:44 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 09:15:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> So, should we allow a random upstream & start-point combination? It > >> appears to me that as long as they share _some_ common ancestory, it > >> may make sense. > > > > But wouldn't just about any two tips in a repository share some common > > ancestry? > > Yes, we are on the same page; the above was my round-about way to say > that it does not look useful to restrict the allowed combination in order to > give us some safety. I have seen some strange ones, as part of migrating from other SCM solutions to git, where there were two completely unrelated histories - at least temporarily until stitched together towards the end of the migration. I don't think the assumption about common ancestry holds generally. I might have misunderstood, though. Randall
