From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:56:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <427042EB.8030501@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504272143260.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>There are a fair number of tools one may want that deal with reachability.
>
> Do you agree that installing a new libgit.so when you want to apply such a
> tool to a new tag is sufficient? If the library is shared, and everything
> for parsing the objects (to the point of getting struct object filled
> out) is in the library, and you want to have some tool able to validate or
> use any new tag that you want reachability-only tools to process, not
> having a standard header proto-format for future tags isn't a problem,
> since you'll get upgrades to the parser portion of all of your tools
> together.
>
Only if language bindings are created for this library.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 5:43 A shortcoming of the git repo format H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 15:00 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-27 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 18:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 18:32 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-27 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 22:51 ` Jon Seymour
2005-04-27 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:39 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-27 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-27 19:47 ` The " Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-27 20:40 ` A shortcoming of the " H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-27 20:49 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-27 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 1:34 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-28 2:14 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-28 3:37 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-04-28 8:31 ` Morgan Schweers
2005-04-28 15:08 ` Barry Silverman
2005-04-27 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 0:45 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-28 0:46 ` David Lang
2005-04-27 23:50 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-27 23:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-28 1:51 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-28 1:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-28 13:39 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-27 20:58 ` Gerhard Schrenk
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