Re: metastore

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 16, 2007, 22:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7imq5ki0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709161245490.24221@asgard.lang.hm>

david@lang.hm writes:

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>> I'd rather not implement it at such a low level where a true
>> "checkout" happens.  For one thing, I am afraid that the special
>> casing will affect the normal codepath too much and would make
>> it into a maintenance nightmare.
>
> as I understand it, at this point you already choose between three
> options.
>
> 1. write to a file (and set the write bit if needed)
> 2. write to stdout
> 3. write to a pager program
>
> I am suggesting adding
> ...
> or am I missing something major here?

I do not think we are choosing any option in the codepath at all.

What I mean by the normal "checkout" is what checkout_entry in entry.c does. There is no other option than (1) above. I would want to see an extremely good justification if you need to touch that codepath to implement this fringe use case.

I do not think there is nothing that writes file contents to stdout/pager other than "git cat-file" or "git show"; I do not think they are what you have in mind when talking about managing the files under /etc. So unfortunately I do not understand the rest of the discussion you made in your message.