From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: josh@joshtriplett.org Subject: Re: co-authoring commits Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:17:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20150617211749.GA24306@cloud> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Tuncer Ayaz , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 17 23:17:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5Kib-0007WG-Rz for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:17:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753272AbbFQVRy (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:17:54 -0400 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:43440 "EHLO relay3-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753195AbbFQVRx (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:17:53 -0400 Received: from cloud (joshtriplett.org [IPv6:2604:3400:dc1:41:216:3eff:fe9f:2070]) (Authenticated sender: josh@joshtriplett.org) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E2AFBA80CA; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:17:50 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 01:57:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Tuncer Ayaz writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Tuncer Ayaz writes: > >> > >> > Is this something that breaks the design and would never be > >> > implemented, > >> > >> Yes. > > > > Junio, thanks for the quick response. > > > > I suppose things have changed since Jonathan Nieder's response in [1] > > (2010),... > > I do not think there is anything changed. Jonathan was being a bit > more diplomatic and academic than I am. > > "There is no reason in principle some faraway future version of Git > could" is _always_ true as a mental masturbation without taking > reality into account, aka "Sounds doable but a lot of trouble" means > "it is doable but it is dubious that it is worth doing". What happens in old versions of git if you try to look at a signed git commit? The same level of interoperability used there would work here, with the additional property that this would be optional metadata so we might be able to make read-only access work with older versions. - Josh Triplett