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From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/WIP] range-diff: show old/new blob OIDs in comments
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:35:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191022193558.GC4960@chatter.i7.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1910222111430.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 09:18:35PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>As to recreating blobs from mails: Wow. That's quite a length you're
>going, and I think it is a shame that you have to. If only every
>contribution came accompanied with a pullable branch in a public
>repository.

Trouble is, those public repositories are transient and may be gone soon 
after the pull request is performed. The goal is to be able to 
reconstruct full code history prior to when it is merged into the 
official repository.

>Instead, we will have to rely on your centralized, non-distributed
>service...

It's actually neither, because mirroring and distributing public-inbox 
repositories is already easy, and we hope to make it easier in the near 
future.

-K

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-22 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-17 12:10 [RFC/WIP] range-diff: show old/new blob OIDs in comments Eric Wong
2019-10-22 19:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-22 19:35   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2019-10-23  1:56   ` Eric Wong
2019-10-23  4:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-24 22:16       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25  0:12         ` Eric Wong
2019-10-25 13:43           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-23 10:06     ` Eric Wong

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