From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: git and symlinks as tracked content Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 22:09:19 +0200 Message-ID: <1115150959.21105.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1115145234.21105.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andreas Gal , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 03 22:04:24 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT3bq-00045x-Hg for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 22:03:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261601AbVECUJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 16:09:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261657AbVECUJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 16:09:23 -0400 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:38808 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261601AbVECUJU (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 16:09:20 -0400 Received: from dhcp-113.off.vrfy.org (c169067.adsl.hansenet.de [213.39.169.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by soundwarez.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694442C982; Tue, 3 May 2005 22:09:18 +0200 (CEST) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andreas Gal wrote: > > > > Yuck. Thats really ugly. Right now all files have a uniform touch to them. > > For every hash you can locate the file, determine its type/tag, unpack it, > > and check the SHA1 hash. The proposal above breaks all that. Why not just > > introduce a new object type "dev" and put major minor in there. It > > will still always hash to the same SHA1 hash value, but fits much better in the > > overall design. > > Hey, I don't personally care that much. I don't see anybody using > character device nodes in the kernel tree, and I don't think most SCM's > support stuff like that anyway ;) Well, you need to be root to create device nodes, that is not a usual requirement for an SCM checkout. :) Kay