From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:39:46 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <45BA2ED2.7080807@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vireuxbel.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>> For heaven's sake, in computer science we can *NEVER* use the same
>> feature for *MORE THAN ONE THING*.  If it doesn't work format-wise
>> that's fine, but "it's only supposed to be used by dumb transports" is
>> ridiculous.
> 
> Hmmmm... I am lost here....
> 

Jakub and Johannes seems to have been arguing that "info/refs is for 
dumb transports, therefore it cannot be used for any other purpose."  I 
find this argument utterly bizarre, since in general, in computer 
science, you try to be multipurpose whenever practical.

	-hpa