From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Imports without Tariffs
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:40:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071014164001.GC27595@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <814D00AE-B89A-45ED-A500-4643C825D0EB@mit.edu>
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 07:04:52PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote:
> I can make a patch, but at the moment I'm swamped and I don't want to think
> about doing that.
>
> I'll get around to it eventually, I hope.
>
> Do I just submit the patch to this list? How do I know it will be used?
Yes, send a patch to the list and to Junio (the maintainer). See
Documentation/SubmittingPatches for details.
> Frankly, I don't know how robust my idea is either, but it's simple
> enough not to have many problems lurking in the shadows.
>
> It would certainly be more useful than not.
Then submit a patch implementing it. :)
>> all of the data that goes into the commit hash as textual comments in
>> the CVS commit (committer name/time, author name/time). And then
> I considered this too, but this exposes what we're doing. We don't
> want the old farts to wonder what all these hash thingies are.
Heh. I like the idea of git secretly infiltrating institutions,
replacing CVS unbeknownst to management. It was the same for Linux in
the mid-90's ("our mail server is running on what!?").
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-14 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-13 4:01 (unknown), Michael Witten
2007-10-13 4:07 ` your mail Jeff King
[not found] ` <1240801C-F4CC-4290-8C3D-2038F1957DF3@MIT.EDU>
2007-10-13 4:39 ` Imports without Tariffs Michael Witten
2007-10-13 7:57 ` Jeff King
2007-10-13 23:04 ` Michael Witten
2007-10-14 16:40 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-10-14 22:10 ` Michael Witten
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2007-10-12 20:36 mfwitten
2007-10-13 2:49 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <3B7796D6-5901-40B0-B3FC-70642AC50B08@mit.edu>
2007-10-13 4:44 ` Michael Witten
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