From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon•org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:56:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <427026AB.4070809@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504271939100.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> If you find an object with an unknown tag, you can't do much with it
> anyway, even if it has a format that matches generic rules. Sure, you
> could trace reachability through it, but that's only helpful for a couple
> of generic programs (fsck and pull), and those programs ought to
> additionally have some clue about what's going on if they're going to act
> appropriately.
>
> On the other hand, it is probably true that programs should be able to
> deal abstractly with new tags if built with a libgit that supports them,
> but that's something that we can arrange a bit later.
>
> -Daniel
There are a fair number of tools one may want that deal with reachability.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-27 23:51 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
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 [this message]
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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