From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:12:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Design of name-addressed data portion
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504241903500.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <200504250058.15901.FabianFranz@gmx.de>

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Fabian Franz wrote:

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> Am Sonntag, 24. April 2005 20:17 schrieb Daniel Barkalow:
> > I'd propose the following structure:
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> > [...]
> >    tags/     the tags
> >      ...     files with the symbolic name of the tags, containing the hash
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> Couldn't you use symbolic or hard links here and in references/?

For most uses of the refs/ directory (of which tags/ is a subdirectory),
we want to get from it the hash, not just the contents of the referenced
object, and we potentially want to get the hash from something like a web
server. Finding out what http://.../foo.git/refs/heads/DEFAULT is a
symlink (or, wrose, hard link) to so that you can decide if it's different
from what you have would be a major pain.

	-Daniel
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