From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Salvatore Mangano <smangano@into-technology.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Supressing sorting of trees
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:24:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90910121324s34c29133t7ba4558771bf404f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF65B4B0-62B1-4469-99E1-3305434F9D59@into-technology.com>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Salvatore Mangano
<smangano@into-technology.com> wrote:
> point to specific code
Shaun pointed out some very core code. And it is just a core concept.
Just read up on the core organizing concept that is the "tree". Git
relies on the layout of the tree being strictly deterministic.
It is a prevalent assumption in the whole codebase.
Yes you can change it, but assume you will have to audit/rewrite 80%
of the core code.
Want "proof"? Go change it, then try "make test", or reimport a large
repository try to use the git commands over it. We'll relax and watch
the fireworks :-)
m
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-12 13:27 Supressing sorting of trees Sal Mangano
2009-10-12 14:20 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-10-12 15:43 ` Sal Mangano
2009-10-12 16:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-12 16:51 ` Sal Mangano
2009-10-12 19:36 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-10-12 20:02 ` Salvatore Mangano
2009-10-12 20:24 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2009-10-13 20:49 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
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