From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:56:59 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <427042EB.8030501@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504272143260.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 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