Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes) | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:52:17 -0500 |
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:14:52 PDT, Linus Torvalds said: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > Note that a repository format change will break a bunch of other > > things as well, including references in commit descriptions ("This > > fixes a regression introduced in commit 42DEADBEEF")
> No they won't. Not if you do it right. It's easy enough to > automatically replace the SHA1's in the description, the same way we > replace everything else.
OK.. I'll bite. How do you disambiguate a '42deadbeef' in the changelog part of a commit as being a commit ID, as opposed to being an address in a traceback or something similar? Yes, I know you only change the ones that actually map to a commit ID, but I'd not be surprised if by now we've got enough commits and stack tracebacks in the git history that we'll birthday-paradox ourselves into a false-positive in an automatic replacement.
(And it's OK to say "the 3 stack tracebacks in changelogs we just mangled can just go jump", but it does need at least a few seconds consideration..)
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