Re: [rfc] git: combo-blobs

Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11T15:57:17Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

>
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > > to construct the combo blob later on, we do have to unpack sched.c (and
> > > if it's already a combo-blob that is not cached then we'd have to unpack
> > > all parents until we arrive at some full blob).
> >
> > I really don't want to have this. Having chains of dependencies is
> > really painful, and now if _any_ of them gets corrupted, you're
> > screwed.
>
> if a repository is corrupted then it pretty much needs to be dropped
> anyway. Also, with a 'replicate the full object on every 8th commit'
> rule the risk would be somewhat mitigated as well.

another thing is that if the repository is 'cached' (which would
normally be the case for work files), then it would be more resilient
against corruption as the full uncompressed file would be included at
the end of the combo-blob.

Ingo