From: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:49:52 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <200504272049.NAA14598@emf.net>
In-Reply-To: <426FF8C4.8080809@zytor.com>


   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