Re: Git commit generation numbers

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

That is IF unknown headers are copied verbatim during rebase.  For
"encoding" header this is a good thing, for "generation" it isn't.

Afaik, they aren't copied verbatim, and never have been. Afaik, the
only thing that has *ever* written commits is "commit_tree()"
(originally "main()" in commit-tree.c). Why is this red herring even
being discussed?

Of course you can always generate bogus commits by writing them by
hand. But that's irrelevant.

Let's suppose for a moment that the commits do have these wrong
generation numbers, shouldn't a fetch on the newer client check these
and show an error? But what if they are pushed to a central server
that has old version of git? It would be messy.

-- 
Felipe Contreras