[plt-dev] One e-mail per commit?

On May 17, Michael Sperber wrote:
> Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> writes:
> 
> > On May 17, Michael Sperber wrote:
> >> Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > You mean that Sam will have his own repository with a different
> >> > history where my five commits are squashed into one, and his
> >> > own commits are present in more detail (which involve him doing
> >> > the 86 commits as usual, then writing a new total commit log
> >> > message that would be present in the public repository but not
> >> > in his oen)?
> >> 
> >> Essentially: However, it won't be different in git's identity
> >> sense of the word - it will have additional stuff in it, namely
> >> the 86 individual commits that the rest of us shouldn't be
> >> looking it.  And that new total commit message would actually
> >> worthwhile, because we'd see the big picture instead of the
> >> itty-bitty details that matter only to Sam.
> >> 
> >> > If so, then I think that you have some misunderstanding of how
> >> > git works.
> >> 
> >> This is not a question of how git works, it's a question of
> >> organizing your workflow.  git is perfectly able to handle this
> >> workflow.
> >
> > I have no idea what you're talking about here.  For the history to
> > be the same in git's identity's sense, it must be exactly the same
> > history on both repositories -- either all of them present in
> > both, or the overall single one in both.
> 
> Let me re-phrase: The revision graph in the central repository will
> be a subgraph of the revision graph in Sam's repository.  All the
> patches of the central repository will be in Sam's repository, and
> they will have the identity (i.e. same hash) there.

Git doesn't keep a history of sha1-ed patches -- it's a history of
commits, each pointing to a tree and a parent commit(s).  If we both
have the same <sha1>, then `git log <sha1>' in both of our repository
is guaranteed to be exactly the same graph, same author, dates, and
log messages -- they're all part of the resulting hash.

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