[Kde-scm-interest] Post-commit hooks script

[Chani]

On December 3, 2009 11:51:06 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:30:07PM -0600, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
> > > however, as i'm trying to make it really smart (trying to
> > > reconstruct the real history from the push as far as possible), i'm
> > > faced with some "interesting" problems, so it's taking a while ...
> >
> > Just work with one commit at-a-time, not sure it makes sense to
> > respond to the whole push as an entity.
> 
> well, that's exactly the problem. just commits (sha1s) make totally no
> sense to a human, so they must be ascribed to particular branches. and
> figuring that out when multiple branches are pushed at once is an
> interesting discourse in graph theory when you consider that refs may be
> aliases to (parts of) each other and can have branches and merges on the
> way. this is admittedly a corner case, but it might become interesting
> when something is "imported" which had extended life outside the main
> repository. the simple case of a multi-branch push would be a fix in a
> stable branch and an immediate forward-merge to master (of course this
> has no chance to work in a highly contented monster repo, but is
> realistic for smaller repos).

ah, yes... what happenes to a CCMAIL hook when the commit it was in is copied 
to another branch? moved to another location?
or does git's magical tree structure take care of duplicates?

well, I imagine we might still have a problem if, say, a plasmoid moves from 
playground to kdebase... the whole history of that plasmoid would appear all 
at once, right?

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