From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:56:27 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <427026AB.4070809@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504271939100.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> If you find an object with an unknown tag, you can't do much with it
> anyway, even if it has a format that matches generic rules. Sure, you
> could trace reachability through it, but that's only helpful for a couple
> of generic programs (fsck and pull), and those programs ought to
> additionally have some clue about what's going on if they're going to act
> appropriately.
> 
> On the other hand, it is probably true that programs should be able to
> deal abstractly with new tags if built with a libgit that supports them,
> but that's something that we can arrange a bit later.
> 
> 	-Daniel

There are a fair number of tools one may want that deal with reachability.

	-hpa