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Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.

From
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Date
Apr 23, 2005, 20:49 UTC
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:30:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 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
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Message 49 of 55 in “Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.”
  1. David WoodhouseApr 21, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  4. Fabian FranzApr 23, 2005
  5. Andreas GalApr 23, 2005
  6. SeanApr 23, 2005
  7. Thomas GlanzmannApr 23, 2005
  8. SeanApr 23, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  10. Thomas GlanzmannApr 23, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  12. SeanApr 23, 2005
  13. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  14. SeanApr 23, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2005
  19. Paul JakmaApr 24, 2005
  20. Paul JakmaApr 24, 2005
  21. David A. WheelerApr 25, 2005
  22. Paul JakmaApr 25, 2005
  23. David A. WheelerApr 25, 2005
  24. Paul JakmaApr 25, 2005
  25. Paul JakmaApr 25, 2005
  26. Linus TorvaldsApr 25, 2005
  27. Fabian FranzApr 25, 2005
  28. Andreas GalApr 25, 2005
  29. Linus TorvaldsApr 25, 2005
  30. David A. WheelerApr 25, 2005
  31. David GreavesApr 25, 2005
  32. David A. WheelerApr 25, 2005
  33. Paul JakmaApr 25, 2005
  34. Paul JakmaApr 25, 2005
  35. Paul JakmaApr 25, 2005
  36. New option (-H) for rpush/rpull to update HEADAndreas Gal, Apr 25, 2005
  37. Daniel BarkalowApr 25, 2005
  38. Andreas GalApr 25, 2005
  39. Daniel BarkalowApr 25, 2005
  40. Matt DomschApr 25, 2005
  41. Jan HarkesApr 25, 2005
  42. Thomas GlanzmannApr 23, 2005
  43. Thomas GlanzmannApr 23, 2005
  44. Jan HarkesApr 23, 2005
  45. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  46. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2005
  47. Jan HarkesApr 23, 2005
  48. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  49. Jan HarkesApr 23, 2005
  50. Git transfer protocols (was: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed)Mike Taht, Apr 23, 2005
  51. Jan HarkesApr 23, 2005
  52. Linus TorvaldsApr 23, 2005
  53. Suggestion: generalize signed tags into "assertion objects"David A. Wheeler, Apr 23, 2005
  54. Jeff GarzikApr 23, 2005
  55. David WoodhouseApr 25, 2005

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