Re: [RFC/WIP] range-diff: show old/new blob OIDs in comments

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
>
> > What Konstantin said about git repos being transient.
> > It wasn't too much work to recreate those blobs from
> > scratch since git-apply has done it since 2005.
>
> ;-)
>
> > We could get around transient repos with automatic mirroring
> > bots which never deletes or overwrites anything published.
> > That includes preserving pre-force-push data in case of
> > force pushes.
> >
> >> Instead, we will have to rely on your centralized, non-distributed
> >> service...
> >
> > I'm curious how you came to believe that, since that's the
> > opposite of what public-inbox has always been intended to be.
>
> I think the (mis)perception comes from the fact that the website and
> the newsfeed you give are both too easy to use and directly attract
> end users, instead of enticing them to keep their own mirrors for
> offline use.
>
> Thanks for injecting dose of sanity.

Maybe your dose of sanity can inject a statement about the case when
public-inbox.org/git differs from a mirror, and not in a
fast-forwardable way? What is the authoritative source of truth, then?

Ciao,
Dscho