From: Kelly Dean <kellydeanch@yahoo.com>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does content provenance matter?
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:13:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336432417.36394.YahooMailClassic@web121504.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsNXT=26u-PPNe9_LFoC1tAKpWJRWfBNNKzQB5Ya3X0n4K_eg@mail.gmail.com>
--- On Mon, 5/7/12, PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> wrote:
> But there could be any number of unrelated commits newer than "Bar"
> but older than "Revert Bar" on other branches. Even if you could
> trust the timestamps to be accurate (you can't), you still can't
> determine a commit's parent unambiguously.
Therefore, provenance does matter, and it must be explicitly recorded because it can't necessarily be correctly and fully deduced from content alone. And git does record inter-commit provenance.
However, git doesn't record intra-commit provenance, as I mentioned in my original message. My question is: why this discrepancy? Either provenance matters, or it doesn't; why record it in one case but not the other?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-05 20:49 Does content provenance matter? Kelly Dean
2012-05-07 8:23 ` Thomas Rast
2012-05-07 21:43 ` Kelly Dean
2012-05-07 22:14 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-05-07 23:13 ` Kelly Dean [this message]
2012-05-08 0:03 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-05-08 9:23 ` Philip Oakley
2012-05-08 0:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-08 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-07 23:12 ` Jakub Narebski
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