From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:26:36 +1000 Message-ID: <1114392397.3419.97.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200504210422.j3L4Mo8L021495@hera.kernel.org> <42674724.90005@ppp0.net> <20050422002922.GB6829@kroah.com> <426A4669.7080500@ppp0.net> <1114266083.3419.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <426A5BFC.1020507@ppp0.net> <1114266907.3419.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Dittmer , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 25 03:23:08 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPsJH-00040q-9V for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:22:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262417AbVDYB1q (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:27:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262411AbVDYB1q (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:27:46 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:9359 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262401AbVDYB1n (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:27:43 -0400 Received: from [203.53.50.91] (helo=[172.18.240.72]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DPsNr-0008O6-HB; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:27:36 +0100 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-1) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 10:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In other words, I actually want to create "tag objects", the same way we > have "commit objects". A tag object points to a commit object, but in > addition it contains the tag name _and_ the digital signature of whoever > created the tag. I'm slightly concerned that to find a given tag by its name if we do _just_ the above would be a fairly slow process. I suspect you'll want a .git/tags/ directory _anyway_, but with named files which refer to tag objects, instead of directly to commit objects as in Petr's current implementation. Other operations we might want to be at least _reasonably_ efficient would include 'show me the latest tag from Linus' and 'show me all extant tags'. -- dwmw2