Re: Summary of core GIT while you are away.

On Thu, 26 May 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Yes, but git has been changing so much that I think it has made sense to have it together with cogito, so that you don't have version skew.

Have we gotten to the point where git is calming down? Judging by the raw diff etc changes, I'd say no, but on the other hand, those are largely over, and maybe we don't have any serious real incompatibilities pending any mroe...

The object data structures have been pretty stable (thank the Gods!), but command line switches and some data output formats certainly have not.

The one big change I see coming is that I really want to make "git-rev-list HEAD TAIL" work right (ie do a real reachabilty thing rather than the date-based thing), at which point you'd _usually_ not need to use the full logic of git-rev-tree that can do multiple parents etc. But that change should be compatible, I hope (ie old scripts will continue to use git-rev-tree and play games with the output, because they'd not know any better).

			Linus