Re: using git directory cache code in darcs?

From: Mike Taht <mike.taht@timesys.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2005, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <4262938E.8010107@timesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504170916080.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, David Roundy wrote:
> 
>>That's all right.  Darcs would only access the cached data through a
>>git-caching layer, and we've already got an abstraction layer over the
>>pristine cache.  As long as the git layer can quickly retrieve the contents
>>of a given file, we should be fine.
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> In fact, one of my hopes was that other SCM's could just use the git
> plumbing. But then I'd really suggest that you use "git" itself, not any
> "libgit". Ie you take _all_ the plumbing as real programs, and instead of
> trying to link against individual routines, you'd _script_ it.

If you don't want it, I won't do it. Still makes sense to separate the plumbing from the porcelain, though.

-- 
Mike Taht


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