From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: gitpacker progress report and a question Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:36:39 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121127083639.GA26935@thyrsus.com> References: <20121115212818.GA21558@thyrsus.com> <20121126220108.GB1713@thyrsus.com> <20121126234359.GA8042@thyrsus.com> <20121127072700.GA23169@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 27 09:37:02 2012 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 1TdGf3-0004B1-MF for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:36:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757723Ab2K0Igm (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:36:42 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:55085 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757488Ab2K0Igm (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:36:42 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 96B8F40661; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:36:39 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras : > Most of those old projects have a linear history, INTERCAL didn't. There were two branches for platform ports. > But different commit/author and respective dates, and merges? Sounds > like overkill. I felt it was important that the metadata format be able to specify git's entire metadata and DAG semantics. Otherwise, as sure as the sun rises, *somebody* would run into a corner case not covered, and (quite rightly) curse me for a shortsighted fool who had done a half-assed job. I don't do half-assed jobs. Not ever, no way, nohow. -- Eric S. Raymond