{"thread":{"id":"171","subject":"[ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'","startedAt":"2005-04-20T09:58:29Z","lastAt":"2005-04-20T09:58:29Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Tom Lord"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"963","messageId":"200504200958.CAA04923@emf.net","threadId":"171","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'","fromName":"Tom Lord","fromEmail":"lord@emf.net","sentAt":"2005-04-20T09:58:29Z","receivedAt":"2005-04-20T09:58:29Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"lord@emf.net","avatar":null},"body":"\n`git', by Linus Torvalds, contains some very good ideas and some\nvery entertaining source code -- recommended reading for hackers.\n\n/GNU Arch/ will adopt `git':\n\n>From the /Arch/ perspective: `git' technology will form the\nbasis of a new archive/revlib/cache format and the basis\nof new network transports.\n\n>From the `git' perspective, /Arch/ will replace the lame \"directory\ncache\" component of `git' with a proper revision control system.\n\nIn my view, the core ideas in `git' are quite profound and deserve\nan impeccable implementation.   This is practical because those ideas\nare also pretty simple.\n\nI started here:\n\n   http://www.seyza.com/=clients/linus/tree/index.html\n\nand for those interested in `git'-theory, a good place to start is\n\n   http://www.seyza.com/=clients/linus/tree/src/liblob/index.html\n\n(Linus is not literally a \"client\" of mine.  That's just the directory \nwhere this goes.)\n\n-t\n"}]}