Re: I want to release a "git-1.0"

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Jun 1, 2005, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0506011742560.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505312002160.1876@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > I way behind the power curve on learning git at this point but
> > one piece of the puzzle that CVS has that I don't believe git does
> > are multiple people committing to the same repository, especially
> > remotely.  I don't see that as a down side of git but it is a common
> > way people CVS so it is worth documenting.
> 
> It's actually one thing git doesn't do per se.
> 
> You have to do a "git-pull-script" from the common repository side, 
> there's no "git-push-script". Ugly.

It shouldn't be hard to do one, except that locking with rsync is going to be a pain. I had a patch to make it work with the rpush/rpull pair, but I didn't get its dependancies in at the time. I can dust those patches off again if you want that functionality included.

The patches are essentially:

 - make the transport protocol handle things other than objects
 - library procedure for locking atomic update of refs files
 - fetching refs in general
 - rpull/rpush that updates a specified ref file atomically

At least the first would be very nice to get in before 1.0, since it is an incompatible change to the protocol.

	-Daniel
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