Re: metastore

[david@lang.hm]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> david@lang.hm writes:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>
>>> I do not think there is nothing that writes file contents to
>>> stdout/pager other than "git cat-file" or "git show"; I do not
>>> think they are what you have in mind when talking about managing
>>> the files under /etc.  So unfortunately I do not understand the
>>> rest of the discussion you made in your message.
>>
>> Ok, I thought that there was common code for these different
>> uses. could you re-read the rest of the logic based on the change
>> being done in checkout_entry?
>>
>> if you are unwilling to have any changes made to the checkout_entry
>> code then the only remaing question is what you think of Daniel's
>> suggestion to have a hook to replace check_updates()?
>>
>> if it's not acceptable either then we are down to doing a
>> post-checkout trigger.
>
> Post-checkout trigger is something I can say I can live with
> without looking at the actual patch, but that does not mean it
> would be a better approach at all.

we agree on this much at least :-)

> I would not be able to answer the first question right now; that
> needs a patch to prove that it can be done with a well contained
> set of changes that results in a maintainable code.

you cannot answer the question in the affirmitive, but you could say that 
any changes in that area would be completely unacceptable to you (and for 
a while it sounded like you were saying exactly that). in which case any 
effort put into preparing patches would be a waste of time

> I haven't tried to assess the potential extent of damage needed
> to checkout_entry(), and I have never been interested in this
> "keeping track of /etc in place" topic myself.  It is unlikely
> I'll try to come up with such a patch on my own to support it at
> such a low level near the core.  Somebody who cares about that
> feature needs to take the initiative of doing that work before
> we can discuss and decide, although older-times including myself
> can help spot potential issues.
>
> So while I admit I am skeptical, consider me neither willing nor
> unwilling at this point.

this is reasonable. thanks for pointing me so clearly at the routine that 
needs to be modified.

David Lang