Re: metastore

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 15, 2007, 14:16 UTC
Message-ID: <85ejh0aua9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709151507310.28586@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
>
>> The problem with metdata getting corrupted, which Nicolas reported,
>> may well have to do with the use of a single file.
>
> Then the tool is corrupt.  Introducing a shadow hierarchy, as you
> propose, is very inefficient.
>
>> Anyway, this *really* should go into git itself!
>
> No.  Git is a source code management system.  Everything else that
> you can do with it is a bonus, a second class citizen.  Should we
> really try to support your use case, we will invariably affect the
> primary use case.

That's what bad design is all about, after all.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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