From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R0G9t-0000ph-Ag for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:07:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3071221C04B; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 17:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B002E21C04B for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 17:06:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so3811022gxk.40 for ; Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:06:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=SwV64s0vBSoAjesgaFw0sIYhhteyu0Dc5w+/c/Sx2a4=; b=wiKOZ3sTNYV4wLpKU4SKPZieO+WgP8ezF5e1jEX8vd5STrA6STtAtUp/RALp7LdtaZ uAYbq4dlAshpwGaakPMHjZsDgeHQFgc9fwTGTLSQdZp19iP6VFBTDWOZMKCSu+YKctE5 Isfo1peNr83ljMyGGri9Ah2hCitaB98fIe4SY= Received: by 10.100.245.35 with SMTP id s35mr2198750anh.84.1315156011244; Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-187-77-158.tx.res.rr.com [76.187.77.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 11sm5176647ant.0.2011.09.04.10.06.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:04:20 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 12:04:20 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-scm@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration Message-ID: <20110904170420.GA6165@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-scm@lists.gentoo.org References: <201108231820.36104.vapier@gentoo.org> <201108232303.24779.vapier@gentoo.org> <20110824083529.GA56521@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo SCM discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-scm@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-scm@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-scm@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4a9f0a31d0c9d4e430918a82e41371cb --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:55:59PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > > CVS and SVN have global order, hence their ability to create changelogs > > that are always growing in a single direction. Git has no global order > > when merges are involved. If I merge in a commit made months ago, where > > is the correct place for it in the generated changelog? When the > > generated changelog is generated from scratch, where does it go? Does it > > stay in the same place after more merges? > > >=20 > I could've sworn we had decided to disallow merge commits because of > this problem, the noise it creates, and the unnecessarily complicated > history it would create. There's no value in preserving exact history > for the portage tree. I realize I'm pretty late on this discussion, but I also would vote for disallowing merge commits in the portage tree. William --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5jr5QACgkQblQW9DDEZTjvaQCgnir1E/ugpVp7YLMYcmrWqweF I1IAoJ7XhrRrrf34eq3sgGRnrc0rGbYF =ESio -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o--