Re: git and symlinks as tracked content

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 3, 2005, 20:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505031304140.26698@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505031255000.30768@sam.ics.uci.edu>

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andreas Gal wrote:

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> 
> Yuck. Thats really ugly. Right now all files have a uniform touch to them. 
> For every hash you can locate the file, determine its type/tag, unpack it, 
> and check the SHA1 hash. The proposal above breaks all that. Why not just 
> introduce a new object type "dev" and put major minor in there. It 
> will still always hash to the same SHA1 hash value, but fits much better in the 
> overall design.

Hey, I don't personally care that much. I don't see anybody using character device nodes in the kernel tree, and I don't think most SCM's support stuff like that anyway ;)

If you want to make it a blob (and have a use for it), go wild.

		Linus