On 30 August 2011 19:09, James Westby <james.wes...@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:10:10 -0500, Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfef...@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
>> There's no reason to do it now, because its solving the wrong problem.
>> The problem is sha's disappear. We use sha's because the provide
>> immovable references to the state of a set of git trees so that people
>> can reproduce builds exactly. We don't need the change to tag a build
>> after its been deemed correct, we just need to implement a function to
>> tag across the gits so that all the shas continue to exist.
>
> I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what course of action you are advocating
> here?
>
> It sounds like you are advocating using a model where we use tags to
> ensure that the referenced revisions are reachable from a head, and then
> refer to the sha ids of the revisions in the manifest. Is that correct?

Yup.

> Thanks,
>
> James
>

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