From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitpacker progress report and a question
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:36:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121127083639.GA26935@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1=sjWypEN3zzC=aPqZYnBFU0C+Dhrh3zj=jY57PHJ6wg@mail.gmail.com>
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
> Most of those old projects have a linear history,
INTERCAL didn't. There were two branches for platform ports.
> But different commit/author and respective dates, and merges? Sounds
> like overkill.
I felt it was important that the metadata format be able to specify
git's entire metadata and DAG semantics. Otherwise, as sure as the
sun rises, *somebody* would run into a corner case not covered, and
(quite rightly) curse me for a shortsighted fool who had done a
half-assed job.
I don't do half-assed jobs. Not ever, no way, nohow.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-27 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-15 21:28 gitpacker progress report and a question Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-15 22:35 ` Max Horn
2012-11-15 23:05 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-16 13:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-11-26 20:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-26 22:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 23:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-26 23:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27 1:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 1:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 6:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 7:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27 8:20 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 8:36 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2012-11-27 8:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 7:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
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