From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:30:16 GMT Subject: Re: git and symlinks as tracked content Message-ID: <7vr7got2tz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds writes: LT> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andreas Gal wrote: >> Yuck. Thats really ugly. Right now all files have a uniform >> touch to them. For every hash you can locate the file, >> determine its type/tag, unpack it, and check the SHA1 >> hash. The proposal above breaks all that. Why not just >> introduce a new object type "dev" and put major minor in >> there. It will still always hash to the same SHA1 hash value, >> but fits much better in the overall design. LT> Hey, I don't personally care that much. I don't see anybody using LT> character device nodes in the kernel tree, and I don't think most SCM's LT> support stuff like that anyway ;) LT> If you want to make it a blob (and have a use for it), go wild. Introducing "dev" type, as Andreas suggests, is wrong. This this should be done in the same way as you suggested for the symlink case. Store a blob object with those chrdev or blkdev modes whose contents are of form: major=14 minor=4 owner=root group=audio perm=0660 This would impact the diff side least, and for the cache side it does not matter in storing and merging. checkout-cache still needs to know about this.