Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

Petr Baudis
2005-04-13T08:59:59Z

Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:47:05AM CEST, I got a letter
where Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> told me that...
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:07:36PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > I'd suggest making it [index] big-endian to make sure the LE weenies don't
> > forget to byteswap properly.
>
> That's not a bad argument actually - especially as networking uses BE.
> (and git is about networking, right?) 8)

Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work in
fully git environment. However, I offer some "base tarballs" which have
the unpacked source as well as the .git directory, and I think you want
the index there. Of course you can always regenerate it by

read-tree $(tree-id)

but I really don't want to (hey, dwmw got away with that too! ;-). It
forces an additional out-of-order step you need to do before making use
of your git for the first time.

The NFS argument obviously seems perfectly valid to me too. So, FWIW,
I'm personally all for it, if someone gives me a patch.

--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.