Re: kernel.org and GIT tree rebuilding

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 26, 2005, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7vll4wq4va.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506261206170.19755@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> 
>> My preference is to do things in this order:
>> 
>> (0) concatenate pack and idx files;

LT> So let's just keep the index/data files separate.

Fair enough. Having thought about it a bit more, if people agree, I think it would make more sense to rip out "delta" object support first before doing read_sha1_file() and friends that uses .git/objects/pack.

My "preferred order" now look like this:

 (1) have people with deltified repositories convert them back
     to undeltified (I think git-pack-objects would barf on such
     repository);

 (2) drop "delta" objects from GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY; this means
     that git-deltafy-script and git-mkdelta have to go.

 (3) teach read_sha1_file() to read from packed GIT in
     .git/objects/pack;

 (4) teach fsck-cache about packed GIT;

 (5) tell git-*-pull about packed GIT;