Quotes of the week

[Posted December 22, 2010 by corbet]

Branches thus become trees of trees. To visualise this, it's simplest to think of the state of your repository as a point in a high-dimensional 'code-space', in which branches are represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned repository.

-- Jonathan Hartley; who says git is complicated?

Happily, I noticed, and did a "git reset --hard @{1}" to get things back, but at no point did "git am" warn about the implicit "reset" it did, that threw away non-am state.

-- Linus Torvalds almost loses his high-dimensional code-space

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Posted Dec 24, 2010 16:26 UTC (Fri) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]

Jonathan Hartley may have been joking, but this is kind of the way I think about how git works. Except your space is actually weirdly compacted because each point is represented by a SHA hash. If it ever happens that two different projects end up with a hash collision I imagine the universe will implode.

The only problem I have is that since commits are simply links between two "points" I imagine it should be easy to shuffle commits around, to merge and split them. But that just doesn't seem to be that simple (or I haven't found the right tool).

Anyway, "git rebase" is cool. Just had to say that. :)

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Posted Dec 24, 2010 19:03 UTC (Fri) by jthill (subscriber, #56558) [Link]

How would a duplicate hash in different projects cause trouble?

For history editing look at cherry-pick and reset --merge and rebase -i. If you use reset --merge to build clean presentation-quality branches without uninteresting safeties and mistakes, and then delete the noisy branches once all is good, not only is your repository a manifold but full quantum reality, virtual particles, foam and all! (I'm neither mathematician nor physicist so ttmv)

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Posted Dec 24, 2010 20:23 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

I personally use git rebase -i <hash>. Isn't it what you're after?

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Posted Jan 1, 2011 14:25 UTC (Sat) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]

I played with this during the week and it does seem pretty close. I've got to get used to the edit mode, but it's quite cool.

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Posted Jan 3, 2011 9:31 UTC (Mon) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

What do you mean by the "edit mode"? It just invokes $EDITOR afaik?