From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 20:09:19 GMT Subject: Re: git and symlinks as tracked content Message-ID: <1115150959.21105.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andreas Gal wrote: > > > > Yuck. Thats really ugly. Right now all files have a uniform touch to them. > > For every hash you can locate the file, determine its type/tag, unpack it, > > and check the SHA1 hash. The proposal above breaks all that. Why not just > > introduce a new object type "dev" and put major minor in there. It > > will still always hash to the same SHA1 hash value, but fits much better in the > > overall design. > > Hey, I don't personally care that much. I don't see anybody using > character device nodes in the kernel tree, and I don't think most SCM's > support stuff like that anyway ;) Well, you need to be root to create device nodes, that is not a usual requirement for an SCM checkout. :) Kay