From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Re: Add "clone" support to lntree Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20050416024755.GX7417@pasky.ji.cz> <20050416025844.GY7417@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Daniel Barkalow , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 16 05:10:58 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMdhp-0007NI-4f for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 05:10:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262599AbVDPDOW (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:14:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262607AbVDPDOW (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:14:22 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:34225 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262599AbVDPDOT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:14:19 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3G3EEs4001804 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:14:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3G3EDIj031184; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:14:14 -0700 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050416025844.GY7417@pasky.ji.cz> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.35__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > I'm wondering, whether each tree should be fixed to a certain branch. I'm wondering why you talk about "branches" at all. No such thing should exist. There are no branches. There are just repositories. You can track somebody elses repository, but you should track it by location, not by any "branch name". And you track it by just merging it. Yeah, we don't have really usable merges yet, but.. Linus