From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 20:05:36 GMT Subject: Re: git and symlinks as tracked content Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andreas Gal wrote: > > 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