Re: Recording merges after repo conversion

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Hi,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin:
> 
> > Why should it?  This would contradict the whole "a commit sha1 hashes 
> > the commit, and by inference the _whole_ history" principle.
> 
> Does it?

Yes!  Of course!  If what you want becomes possible, I could make an evil 
change in history long gone, and slip it by you.  You could not even see 
the history which changed.

> Why can't the grafts file itself be committed to the repository and live 
> in the history?

You can do that already.  But you have to ask the people at the other end 
to actually apply the graft.

> Well, yeah, the SHA1 hashing is one of Git's main strengths, but it also
> opens up some weaknesses.

If you really think that, I doubt you understood the issues at hand.

Ciao,
Dscho

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