From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:56:27 -0700 Message-ID: <427026AB.4070809@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 28 01:52:18 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQwJQ-00052l-Ek for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:51:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262107AbVD0X4u (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:56:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262108AbVD0X4u (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:56:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:17793 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262107AbVD0X4s (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:56:48 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3RNuW6u004679 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:56:32 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Daniel Barkalow In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.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