Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository]

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Robert Collins <address@hidden>

    > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:47, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

    > > So I think that a reasonable extension to ensure global uniqueness of
    > > a category would be to keep a history of external tags back to the
    > > archive where the project was first imported.  It would be that
    > > archive that determines the "true name" of the category.

I really didn't have any clue how to make sense of that comment when
it appeared but:

Would this goal be satisfied just by adding a header to log messages
created by `import' which said "Initial-import: yes" (or some such)?

-t