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Re: Rollback of git commands

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 28, 2007, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20071128162002.GB20308@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<3AAC5548-A9AC-4236-B1F7-5CFDE11B52C4@adacore.com>
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:07:29PM -0500, Geert Bosch wrote:
> I have always wondered why refs and tags are not
> in the regular object store. In a way, there
> should be just one root pointer (SHA1) pointing
> to a tree with refs, etc.

Assuming that they also retain the "having an object implies having all of the objects it points to" property, then it makes it hard to talk about subsets or single refs. If I fetch from you and you communicate your repo state as some hash, then I am stuck getting _all_ of your refs to complete this property.

-Peff
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  1. Jon SmirlNov 27, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2007
  3. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  4. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  5. David SymondsNov 28, 2007
  6. Ingo MolnarNov 28, 2007
  7. Sergei OrganovNov 28, 2007
  8. Nicolas PitreNov 28, 2007
  9. Geert BoschNov 28, 2007
  10. Jeff KingNov 28, 2007
  11. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  12. Jeff KingNov 28, 2007
  13. SeanNov 28, 2007
  14. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  15. SeanNov 28, 2007
  16. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  17. Nicolas PitreNov 28, 2007
  18. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  19. Nicolas PitreNov 28, 2007
  20. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
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  22. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  23. Karl HasselströmNov 29, 2007
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2007
  25. Karl HasselströmNov 28, 2007
  26. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  27. Daniel BarkalowNov 28, 2007
  28. Steven GrimmNov 28, 2007
  29. Daniel BarkalowNov 28, 2007
  30. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  31. Theodore TsoNov 29, 2007

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