From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:37:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Experimental TDB support for GIT REFS
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com> wrote:
> List,
>
> One of my ref transaction aims is to make define a stable public API
> for accessing refs.
> Once this is done I want to make it possible to replace the current
> .git/refs/* model with a
> different type of backend.
> In my case I want to add support to store all refs and reflogs in a TDB database
> but once we have a pluggable backend framework for refs, if someone
> wants to store the refs
> in a SQL database, that should be fairly trivial too.
>
> There are a few series queued before this becomes possible, but is
> anyone wants to test or play with my "git can use TDB database" you
> can find an implementation of this at
>
> https://github.com/rsahlberg/git/tree/backend-struct-tdb

Interesting! But the link 404s :(