On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
I've been looking at tracking file revisions. One proposed solution was
to have a separate revision history for individual files, with a new
kind of 'filecommit' object which parallels the existing 'commit',
referencing a blob instead of a tree.
* David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been looking at tracking file revisions. One proposed solution
was to have a separate revision history for individual files, with a
new kind of 'filecommit' object which parallels the existing 'commit',
referencing a blob instead of a tree.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Although Linus is correct in that an SCM doesn't *have* to handle this,
it really feels like shooting for mediocracy to me. We might as well
design it right from the beginning.
No. git is not an SCM. it's a filesystem designed to
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 20:58 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
The thing i tried to avoid was to list long filenames in the commit
(because of the tree hierarchy we'd need to do tree-absolute pathnames
or something like that, and escape things, and do lookups - duplicating
a VFS which is quite bad)
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Although Linus is correct in that an SCM doesn't *have* to handle
this, it really feels like shooting for mediocracy to me. We might
as well design it right from the beginning.
No. git is not an SCM. it's a filesystem
Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:58:52PM CEST, I got a letter
where H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that...
Petr Baudis wrote:
Cogito. Git inside can be the first slogan.
What about tig?
I like Cogito; it's a real name, plus it'd be a good use for the
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
Opinions? Dissent? We'd probably need to escape the filenames in some
way -- handwave over that for now.
I personally think renames are a minor thing that doesn't happen
much. What actually happens, in my opinion, is that some chunk of a file
is
Steven Cole wrote:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 01:40 pm, Andrew Timberlake-Newell wrote:
Zach Welch pontificated:
I imagine quite a few folks expect something not entirely unlike an SCM
to emerge from these current efforts. Moreover, Petr's 'git' scripts
wrap your filesystem plumbing to that very
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