From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 04:22:30 GMT
Subject: Re: "git-send-pack"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507012119360.3019@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <42C61351.10306@zytor.com>



On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Any reason not to simply append objects to an existing packfile?

What happens when somebody screws up in the middle?

The one thing I care about more than anything else is consistency. We are 
careful about writing objects in the right order, and we can re-create the 
state from the originator etc. But if we start appending stuff and 
something goes wrong in the middle, I'm just not going to touch it. A 
"truncate and hope for the best" algorithm? 

Besides, the result is not a valid git archive any more. 

		Linus