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From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: erratic behavior commit --allow-empty
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:24:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABURp0pgE=J9yCa+nUa7J0MZ-O-6bUHrj58zLQZ9mToh6YcOFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB9Jk9C4Y2LSzZW5Nkz=4f===8_gk4uAG4EKDxT17kUHu4VX1A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Angelo Borsotti
<angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> wrote:
...
> The operation that caused problems was nr. 4. In all the cases
> enlisted above, a git commit creates a brand new and unique commit
> because either it has a parent that is different from that of any
> other commit, or because its tree is different. All, except case nr 3
> when there are no binaries:
>
>      source branch         A'
>                                    :
>      topic branch        A
>
> In this case the parent is the same as that of A, i.e. none, and also
> the tree is the same.

And why is this a problem?

Is there a process or person watching the server for a new commit?

Is it not enough to notice that the pushed-to branch has a new HEAD?

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-04 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02  7:51 erratic behavior commit --allow-empty Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-02  8:26 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-02  8:49   ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-02 17:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-02 19:34     ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-02 19:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-02 21:56         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03  2:10           ` PJ Weisberg
2012-10-03  5:37           ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-03  6:22             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03  6:27               ` Johannes Sixt
     [not found]                 ` <CAB9Jk9AgtNQfWDr31CWbXf2ag=11du-aruu-0+nOZ3KaaG9=og@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-03  7:12                   ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-03  7:35                     ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 20:49                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-03  7:29           ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-03  7:45             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03  8:04               ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-03  8:24                 ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 11:07                   ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-03 11:52                     ` Angelo Borsotti
     [not found]                       ` <CABURp0oHez6j8+FPG8Zm52TGVyC1XwWhE55TBDrXRGFrW6kWww@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-03 13:35                         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 14:15                           ` Phil Hord
2012-10-03 13:57                       ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-03 14:46                         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 14:52                           ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-03 22:32                       ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-04  7:07                         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-04 13:24                           ` Phil Hord [this message]
2012-10-04 19:00                             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-04 21:17                           ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-04 22:09                             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-04 22:42                               ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-04 23:10                                 ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 12:25                   ` Tomas Carnecky
2012-10-03 13:08                     ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 10:12               ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-03 11:37                 ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 13:44                   ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-03 14:37                     ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 16:44                       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-03 17:37                         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 19:03                           ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-03 19:11                             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 20:30                               ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-03 12:59       ` Phil Hord
2012-10-03 14:25         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 16:06           ` PJ Weisberg
2012-10-03 17:34             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-03 19:05               ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-03 19:43               ` PJ Weisberg
2012-10-05  8:15               ` Lars Noschinski
2013-01-12 18:30   ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-01-16 12:26     ` Joachim Schmitz

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