From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Preliminary pack v4 support Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:03:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1377577567-27655-1-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 27 17:03:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VEKoH-00006j-Bv for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:03:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753966Ab3H0PDx (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:03:53 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:57662 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753607Ab3H0PDw (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:03:52 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16233C164; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:03:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=ckK2oQmP7nvRJBF5iczML5c5T0c=; b=DSNMjD g3cyCbZatAu4m1McXyQPi0hP7peFbK8eaQBrKBGnoL9yAC+vLAyQ6GXRq3uxwkil p2iKK3I27ZChUR/0rp9KoRw0jA1EA2Hv5+m6E+rJEzpajo8udCndDKxu3L1GWSNu w5CVA9bKQgUqUu2vF+/S07wxd03ws1U5UUpNc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=SBwNESxOVmi26I9dywec/nkfSRttGpzn BKFr52yc6pMmc98l1krFp2KCj+cMMsD3wFM8wQtES44zZ2DKdWimPZTnNT8+Xhu3 tzvSWLydzP5gkeRNP7DXCy2cIcf+DN1QEzqI6A7iT5gsS2ehlIh6t0m3zLjlQyHw 4zJ/0cDaPeQ= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2533C163; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C5EB73C162; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:03:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1377577567-27655-1-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:25:44 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E1D6460C-0F29-11E3-A898-CA9B8506CD1E-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: > Subject says it all... at last ! > > This can also be fetched here: > > git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/git > > Demonstration of what it does at the moment: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233038 > > I'd like to preserve the author time stamps as they relate to where in > the world I was when the corresponding code was written. You'll notice > I didn't work on the code in the same order as it is now presented. We can also notice things like "From: user@machine.(none)" ;-) > Still open question: what to do with a thin pack. Should we really > complete it with local objects upon reception, or were we only over > paranoid at the time we imposed this rule? I do not think paranoia had much to do with it. I am afraid that allowing a delta in a pack to depend on a base in another pack means that the former pack becomes unusable without the latter, which would make object store management (e.g. partial repacking) a lot more cumbersome, no?