Re: Finding file revisions

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Apr 28, 2005, 16:47 UTC
Message-ID: <1114706876.20916.18.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504280815120.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 08:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I disagree. I'm not database allergic, I just don't believe in the notion 
> that databases solve all the worlds problems.

I never claimed, they did

> You just made creating a commit etc much slower. You now have to update 
> per-file information that you never updated before, and look at 
> information that git simply doesn't _care_ about.

I did not say, that such a fetaure should be included into git itself. That was never my intention.

> what? We've had that. It's called RCS/SCCS/CVS, and it's a piece of total
> and absolute crap. Exactly because single-file revisions simply do not
> matter.

I agree that RCS is crap for distributed development, but seeing a change in a file in the correct context is quite helpful at times.

> If you want to use a database, go wild. But use it as a _cache_. Then you 
> can build up the database of file revisions "after the fact", and always 
> know that your database is not the real data, it's just an index, and can 
> be thrown away and regenerated at will.

Thats all I want to use it for. Exactly for of tracking information over various repos and longer time intervals.

tglx