Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
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>>> Integrity checks can tell you that repository is corrupted, but it would
>>> be better if it didn't get corrupted in first place.
>> Obviously. Hence our append-only design. Data that's written to a repo
>> is never rewritten, which minimizes exposure to software bugs and I/O
>> errors.
>
> By the way, RCS / CVS rewrote relevant data (to have diff from the top
> structure) on each commit.
>
> I wonder if git could generate pack on the fly fastimport like...
What do you mean with that? generate the pack on which occasion? CVS import? I do this already.
cheers
simon
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