Hi, I have question… How do you prevent Git's "garbage collector" to remove those empty commits?
Thanks. Richard > On 26. Jun 2017, at 12:36, Matthias Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi List, > > we were told[0] to post our release announcement to this list. > > We're developing a distributed issue tracking software which uses git > [1]. We released version 0.2.0 a few days ago. > > The software itself is written in Rust. Why is this software so > special? Because it uses an alternative approach to issue tracking in > git: We do _not_ check files into the repository, but use the git > plumbing functionality to create empty commits (empty as in "no patch > involved") for the issue messages. > > This gives us a few benefits: we do not rely on a linear history, thus > mapping mailing lists to the issue repository. Mapping > git{hub,lab,...} to the issue tracking database is possible. Working > offline, in a distributed manner is totally feasible. > > We'd love to receive your review and your suggestions, as well as bug > reports and feature requests. > > Sidenote: Right now we are tied to the github issue tracking system, > because there is no syncing functionality _yet_. There is also no > web-viewer/client yet. Everything is rather bare by now, as you see. > > We're also thinking about a functionality to do pull-requests > including reviews, though that is not-so-simple, of course. > > [0]: https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit/issues/112 > [1]: https://github.com/neithernut/git-dit > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > Kind regards, > Matthias Beyer > > Consider switching to free software. > It adds value to your life. > https://www.gnu.org/ > _______________________________________________ > dist-bugs mailing list > [email protected] > https://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dist-bugs _______________________________________________ dist-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dist-bugs
