Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format

   From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

   Linus Torvalds wrote:
   > 
   > No, that's definitely _not_ the point.
   > 
   > I repeat: git does not do any free-form parsin AT ALL. The links are in 
   > well-defined places, and you do not ever search for them. And that's 
   > really very very important.
   > 

   I know that.  However, is that going to be true for all versions of the 
   repository format over all time?  If so, the repository format is brittle.

I think one has to understand Linus' posts as coming from the "head-down, steaming ahead for *MY* project cause you all suck" perspective and impose corresponding filters on his declarations of "LAW". At least that's the only way *I* can make sense of his latest contributions.

If you get git, just do the right thing -- Linus be damned.

-t