Ulrich Windl wrote:
On 1 Apr 2009 at 9:54, Matthieu Moy wrote:
"Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Not to mention that you can have multiple roots (multiple commits with
no parent) in git repository; besides independent branches (like
'man', 'html' or 'todo') it is usually result of absorbing or
subtree-merging other projects. In 'master' branch there are 5 roots
or more: joined 'git-tools' (mailinfo / mailsplit), absorbed gitweb,
and subtree-merged gitk and git-gui. And here you would again have
multiple commits with the same number...
Which would not harm, because it would be version N from committer X. Any if
committer X merges from anything else, the next number would be > N. I did not
claim that my method makes a total ordering of commits and merges possible.
Neither does it make the numbers unique for committer X.
If commiter X commits a successor to commit N, it's labeled N+1. If
later, he creates another branch from commit N, and commit, the new,
other commit will be labeled N+1.
Correct: They live in a parallel universe. But on the long term they will either
vanish or be merged in which case the number will be "> N+1" (on the main branch).
So we have a branch plus a sequence number all the time.
This means even within a repository, you cannot say things like
"commit number N", so, OK, you have numerical IDs, but you can't use
them.
I never wanted to have such a thing (using those numbers for commit).
If you weren't going to use them for commits, what use are they at all?
I think you need to show us at least one use-case where this would
be beneficial *at all* before anyone is going to take this suggestion
seriously (this time around; It's been dropped on the floor numerous
times before when those original posters came to their senses).
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