Re: Plans for git

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:30:49 -0600
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 2:55 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen_at_sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> Lev Serebryakov wrote in
>  <23e7fc1c-6769-ceaf-4089-46e5cc575c20_at_FreeBSD.org>:
>  |On 19.09.2020 19:05, Bakul Shah wrote:
>  |>> These are the main ones. The three down sides are lack of $FreeBSD$ \
>  |>> support
>  |>> and tags in general.
>  |>
>  |> Can a git hook be used for this?
>  |
>  |git filters could be used for that, problem is it should be local config\
>  |uration. You could not configure filters in clones automatically :-(
>
> I do not think you can do that.  Once i switched to git (2011 or
> a bit before) i even looked around for this, because i have been
> educated by BSD and used such tags everywhere, and found a thread
> with the Linus from where the elks live regarding this topic.
> I guess that $SHA-1$ git (supported by git by then) is the outcome
> of this thread, offered as a compromise.  That mail thread exists.
>

It's documented to be the hash of the blob, not the hash of the commit.,
which makes it basically useless for our purposes...

Warner
Received on Mon Sep 21 2020 - 19:31:03 UTC

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