Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
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> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>There are a fair number of tools one may want that deal with reachability.
>
> Do you agree that installing a new libgit.so when you want to apply such a
> tool to a new tag is sufficient? If the library is shared, and everything
> for parsing the objects (to the point of getting struct object filled
> out) is in the library, and you want to have some tool able to validate or
> use any new tag that you want reachability-only tools to process, not
> having a standard header proto-format for future tags isn't a problem,
> since you'll get upgrades to the parser portion of all of your tools
> together.
>
Only if language bindings are created for this library.
-hpa