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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 18:56:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <427042EB.8030501@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504272143260.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>  
>>There are a fair number of tools one may want that deal with reachability.
>  
> Do you agree that installing a new libgit.so when you want to apply such a
> tool to a new tag is sufficient? If the library is shared, and everything
> for parsing the objects (to the point of getting struct object filled
> out) is in the library, and you want to have some tool able to validate or
> use any new tag that you want reachability-only tools to process, not
> having a standard header proto-format for future tags isn't a problem,
> since you'll get upgrades to the parser portion of all of your tools
> together.
> 

Only if language bindings are created for this library.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-28  1:52 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
2005-04-28  1:51             ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-28  1:56               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-28 13:39     ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-27 20:58 ` Gerhard Schrenk

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