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 18:56:59 -0700 Message-ID: <427042EB.8030501@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 03:52:33 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQyCV-0006nl-EG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:52:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261694AbVD1B5Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:57:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261711AbVD1B5Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:57:25 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:32643 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261694AbVD1B5W (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:57:22 -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 j3S1v544006116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:57:05 -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: > 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