From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 22:03:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200505041344.51637.mason@suse.com> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote: > > Yes, if Linus does take the patches, it's really important for people to be > able to easily continue without deltas/packing if they want. I'll happily take the patch and just not use the delta packing myself (at least until I trust it). But before I take the patch I want to make sure that people agree on it, and that it's been tested well enough that it won't cause people to corrupt their repositories. For example, I do _not_ want to be in the situation SVN is in, where if you corrupt your SVN database, you're totally screwed. There's a real advantage to not having fancy data structures or complicated consistency rules. Linus