From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>, Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [(not so) random thoughts] using git as its own caching tool
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:48:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071212154848.GA19294@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475FFFB7.4010102@op5.se>
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> A bit of both ;-)
>
> I like the idea to use the git object store, because that certainly
> has an API that can't be done away with by user config. The reflog
> and its expiration mechanism is subject to human control though, and
> everyone doesn't even have them enabled. I don't for some repos where
> I know I'll create a thousand-and-one loose objects by rebasing,
> --amend'ing and otherwise fiddling with history rewrites.
>
> Having a tool that works on some repos but not on others because it
> relies on me living with an auto-gc after pretty much every operation
> would be very tiresome indeed.
There is already a tool that relies on reflogs: stash.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 0:38 [(not so) random thoughts] using git as its own caching tool Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-12 6:51 ` Mike Hommey
2007-12-12 15:35 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-12 15:48 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-12-12 16:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-12 16:27 ` Pierre Habouzit
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