From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:23:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Rollback of git commands
Message-ID: <9e4733910711280823q5fa14120scb6371a1465efca5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071128162002.GB20308@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 11/28/07, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:07:29PM -0500, Geert Bosch wrote:
>
> > I have always wondered why refs and tags are not
> > in the regular object store. In a way, there
> > should be just one root pointer (SHA1) pointing
> > to a tree with refs, etc.
>
> Assuming that they also retain the "having an object implies having all
> of the objects it points to" property, then it makes it hard to talk
> about subsets or single refs. If I fetch from you and you communicate
> your repo state as some hash, then I am stuck getting _all_ of your
> refs to complete this property.

push/pull would still work at the branch level. The local state
tracking objects wouldn't be exchanged.

>
> -Peff
>


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Jon Smirl
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