From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:50:21 GMT
Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format
Message-ID: <1113681021.28612.29.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504161135480.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 11:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That level of abstraction ("we never look directly at the objects") is 
> what allows us to change the object structure later. For example, we 
> already changed the "commit" date thing once, and the tree object has 
> obviously evolved a bit, and if we ever change the hash, the objects will 
> change too, but if you always just script them using nice helper tools, 
> you won't ever need to _care_. And that's how it should be.

For the export stuff its terrible slow. :(

I agree that using common tools is good. But we talk also about an open
format, so using a script to speed up certain tasks is not bad at all.

tglx