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Re: [RFC] Plumbing-only support for storing object metadata

From
Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date
Aug 10, 2008, 20:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20080810201651.GB14237@cuci.nl>
In-Reply-To
<20080810181115.GA3906@efreet.light.src>
Jan Hudec wrote:
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>On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 19:57:35 +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> Jan Hudec wrote:
>If git was to store anything for empty
>directories, it would be empty tree, not a tree containing empty blob called
>'.'. There was even a prototype patch to do that sent to the list (I believe
Ok, sounds reasonable.

With respect to the storage inside the tree, using a duplicate name with mode 0 or a name with some kind of rare extension... It should probably be investigated how much of the existing core needs to be touched/changed to support the duplicate name. I agree that using a custom rare extension would allow for almost no change to git-core.

-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

Real programmers don't produce results, they return exit codes.
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  1. Jamey SharpAug 9, 2008
  2. Scott ChaconAug 9, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 10, 2008
  4. Stephen R. van den BergAug 10, 2008
  5. david@lang.hmAug 10, 2008
  6. Jan HudecAug 10, 2008
  7. Stephen R. van den BergAug 10, 2008
  8. Jan HudecAug 10, 2008
  9. Stephen R. van den BergAug 10, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2008
  11. david@lang.hmAug 10, 2008
  12. Stephen R. van den BergAug 11, 2008
  13. Josh TriplettAug 16, 2008
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  15. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2008
  16. Jan HudecAug 16, 2008
  17. Shawn O. PearceAug 18, 2008
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  20. Marcus GriepAug 18, 2008
  21. Shawn O. PearceAug 18, 2008
  22. Jan HudecAug 10, 2008

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