Re: [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 18:03, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Yes, if Linus does take the patches, it's really important for people to
> > be able to easily continue without deltas/packing if they want.
>
> I'll happily take the patch and just not use the delta packing myself (at
> least until I trust it). But before I take the patch I want to make sure
> that people agree on it, and that it's been tested well enough that it
> won't cause people to corrupt their repositories.
>
> For example, I do _not_ want to be in the situation SVN is in, where if
> you corrupt your SVN database, you're totally screwed. There's a real
> advantage to not having fancy data structures or complicated consistency
> rules.

Fair enough ;)  I'm pretty flexible about most of the details, so I'm hoping 
it won't be hard to get a consensus.  The current code might be a little too 
simple in format (in the packed and delta headers), but so far it seems 
sufficient for git's needs.

The git-pack utility would probably be the best way to get other people to 
experiment and make suggestions, so I'll start there.

-chris