From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:03:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Composing git repositories
Message-ID: <7v7gkkern9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130331225747.GB11704@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> If you are curious, at a quieter time it might be useful to ask for
> pointers to the discussions that led to the current design, and folks
> on the list might be glad to help.

Not on the current design but the discussion before that round that
influenced the outcome greatly was this:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/14486/focus=14492

where we discussed a separate "gitlink" type of object.

And obviously this discussion is also a must read:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44106

I vaguely recall asking (or seeing somebody ask) why Linus ended up
with using "commit in index" without introducing a separate gitlink
type, but I didn't find it.  IIRC, the answer was "it turned out
that we didn't need it" or something like that, which I tend to
agree.