From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:10:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvdopwxxa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904271314130.22156@localhost.localdomain> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:18:19 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Maybe the config option shouldn't be a boolean, but a "how to instantiate
> objects". IOW, we could do
>
> [core]
> createobject = {link|rename}
>
> instead. Maybe we some day could allow "inplace", for some totally broken
> system that supports neither renames nor links, and just wants the object
> to be created with the final name to start with.
>
> (Ok, that sounds unlikely, but I mention it because it's an example of the
> concept. Maybe somebody likes crazy databases, and would like to have a
> "createobject = mysql" for some DB-backed loose object crap).
>
> Linus
More likely is "bigtable", I guess ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-27 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-23 10:53 [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-23 19:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-23 19:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-25 9:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-25 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-25 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-25 18:38 ` Michael Gaber
2009-04-25 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 3:37 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-25 18:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-25 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-26 17:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-25 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-23 19:39 ` [PATCH] " Alex Riesen
2009-04-23 21:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-24 5:44 ` Alex Riesen
2009-04-25 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-25 18:52 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-26 1:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-26 17:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 12:00 ` [PATCH v3] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 15:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 16:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-27 20:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 22:10 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-27 22:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 23:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 22:32 ` [PATCH] Rename core.unreliableHardlinks to core.createObject Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-28 8:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-28 8:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-28 14:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-28 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-28 22:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 17:38 ` [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable Johannes Schindelin
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