Re: [(not so) random thoughts] using git as its own caching tool

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>]

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:35:19PM +0000, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >  So am I having crazy thoughts and should I throw my crack-pipe away ?
> >Or does parts of this mumbling makes any sense to someone ?
> 
> A bit of both ;-)
> 
> I like the idea to use the git object store, because that certainly
> has an API that can't be done away with by user config. The reflog
> and its expiration mechanism is subject to human control though, and
> everyone doesn't even have them enabled. I don't for some repos where
> I know I'll create a thousand-and-one loose objects by rebasing,
> --amend'ing and otherwise fiddling with history rewrites.
> 
> Having a tool that works on some repos but not on others because it
> relies on me living with an auto-gc after pretty much every operation
> would be very tiresome indeed.

  Well if you disable the reflog on some repositories, those commands
will just be slow. But would still work.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
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