Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 07:30:45AM -0700, Shawn Pearce wrote: > >> > * Store references in a SQLite database, to get correct transaction >> > handling. >> >> No to SQLLite in git-core. Using it from JGit requires building >> SQLLite and a JNI wrapper, which makes JGit significantly less >> portable. I know SQLLite is pretty amazing, but implementing >> compatibility with it from JGit will be a big nightmare for us. > > That seems like a poor reason not to implement a pluggable feature for > git-core. If we implement it, then a site using only git-core can take > advantage of it. Sites with JGit cannot, and would use a different > pluggable storage mechanism that's supported by both. But if we don't > implement, it hurts people using only git-core, and it does not help > sites using JGit at all.
We would need to eventually have at least one backend that we know will play well with different Git implementations that matter (namely, git-core, Jgit and libgit2) before the feature can be widely adopted. The first backend that is used while the plugging-interface is in development can be anything and does not have to be one that eventual ubiquitous one, however; as long as it is something that we do not mind carrying it forever, along with that final reference backend. I take the objection from Shawn only as against making the sqlite that final one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
