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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Tom Lord <lord@emf•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:59:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426FFD27.4030604@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504272049.NAA14598@emf.net>

Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> I think one has to understand Linus' posts as coming from the
> "head-down, steaming ahead for *MY* project cause you all suck"
> perspective and impose corresponding filters on his declarations of
> "LAW".  At least that's the only way *I* can make sense of his latest
> contributions.
> 
> If you get git, just do the right thing -- Linus be damned.
> 

It's fair for Linus to want to make things behave a certain way in a 
project.  There are design decisions which have tradeoffs both ways -- 
robust (but subject to partial information issues) versus brittle (but 
safe.)

That's part of why I prefer to ask first.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-27 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-27  5:43 A shortcoming of the git repo format H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 15:00 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-27 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 18:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 18:32     ` Dave Jones
2005-04-27 18:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 22:51         ` Jon Seymour
2005-04-27 19:15       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:39       ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-27 19:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:47       ` The " Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-27 20:40       ` A shortcoming of the " H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 20:49         ` Tom Lord
2005-04-27 20:59           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-28  0:57           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28  1:34             ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-28  2:14             ` Tom Lord
2005-04-28  3:37             ` Ryan Anderson
2005-04-28  8:31             ` Morgan Schweers
2005-04-28 15:08             ` Barry Silverman
2005-04-27 20:56         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28  0:45           ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-28  0:46             ` David Lang
2005-04-27 23:50         ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-27 23:56           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28  1:51             ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-28  1:56               ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 13:39     ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-27 20:58 ` Gerhard Schrenk

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