From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C186A1F55B for ; Wed, 27 May 2020 15:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730787AbgE0Pwo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2020 11:52:44 -0400 Received: from elephants.elehost.com ([216.66.27.132]:37592 "EHLO elephants.elehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730775AbgE0Pwn (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2020 11:52:43 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elehost.com Received: from gnash (CPE00fc8d49d843-CM00fc8d49d840.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [173.32.57.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by elephants.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 04RFqZA7005565 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 27 May 2020 11:52:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rsbecker@nexbridge.com) From: "Randall S. Becker" To: "'Junio C Hamano'" , "'Jeff King'" Cc: "=?UTF-8?Q?'Ren=C3=A9_Scharfe'?=" , "'Dana Dahlstrom'" , References: <20200521191626.GC1308489@coredump.intra.peff.net> <9f26099a-e77b-ede4-bee3-27382a5a0875@web.de> <20200523162914.GA2178752@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200527065210.GC4005121@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: 'HEAD' is not a commit (according to git-checkout) Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 11:52:28 -0400 Message-ID: <022e01d6343e$d6c045b0$8440d110$@nexbridge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQE7Hg29RQao7I/tGfVz6+2VcekzRgJZcAenAsE/0y4Ch+QuJgKQTr91Aob3W20CH/OlpgIT+JaLqWrSsGA= Content-Language: en-ca Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On May 27, 2020 11:44 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King 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