Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.

From: Jan Harkes (jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu)
Date: 04/23/05

  • Next message: Greg KH: "[GIT PATCH] USB bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc3" 
    Date:	Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:49:57 -0400
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

    On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:30:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote:
    > >
    > > Why not keep the tags object outside of the tree in the tags/ directory.
    >
    > Because then you have all those special cases with fetching them and with
    > fsck, and with shared object directories. In other words: no.

    I respectfully disagree,

    rsync works fine for now, but people are already looking at implementing
    smarter (more efficient) ways to synchronize git repositories by
    grabbing missing commits, and from there fetching any missing tree and
    file blobs. However there is no such linkage to discover missing tag
    objects, only a full rsync would be able to get them and for that it has
    to send the name of every object in the repository to the other side to
    check for any missing ones.

    So fetching tags is already going to be a special case.

    And any form of validation of a tag is a special operation. In fact tags
    could be as simple as a the sha of an (like pasky's tags) followed by
    the detached pgp signature of the tagged object instead of trying to
    signing the tag itself. That also avoids having to strip the signature
    part from the tag when we want to validate it.

    Jan
    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

  • Next message: Greg KH: "[GIT PATCH] USB bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc3"

    Relevant Pages

    • BK snapshots broken
      ... The snapshots on kernel.org are being created from the most recent tag ... in the BK repo, which is 2.6.11.3. ... That means they are missing all of ... send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in ...
      (Linux-Kernel)
    • Re: [PATCH - EXPERIMENTAL] files with forks in the VFS
      ... explodes a tar achieve, "tag" which shows tags in a multi-media ... In the first case, the subordinate files should clearly be writable, ... send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in ...
      (Linux-Kernel)
    • Re: [PATCH] i386/x86_64 fpu: fix x87 tag word simulation using fxsave
      ... unsigned long tag; ... unsigned long ret = 0xffff0000u; ... send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in ...
      (Linux-Kernel)
    • RE: [RFC] add sysfs to dynamically control blk request tag maintenance
      ... Jens Axboe wrote on Friday, October 07, 2005 12:42 AM ... >> called but no actual consumer of using the tag. ... send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in ...
      (Linux-Kernel)
    • Re: perl grammer help
      ... some of the records are not delimitted end missing, ... and  collect informtion of what ever date,thats  in the record ... Write perl grammer tokenise the records? ... #we can only detect missing BEGIN tags after an END tag ...
      (perl.beginners)