Re: Core and Not-So Core

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: May 11, 2005, 02:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505102226020.5426@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <2cfc403205051017505b57da72@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Jon Seymour wrote:

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> On 5/11/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > So unlike the objects database which has well-defined format and is
> > supposed to be "public", you should view the directory cache as internal
> > git tools' structure. If you want to mess with it too, either use the
> > proper level of abstraction and call the git tools, or don't mess with
> > it at all. And you need to care about it only if you want the git tools
> > working on the same tree properly too - so in that case use the git
> > tools too.
> 
> I agree in principle, though I'd like users to be able to easily
> switch between the Eclipse and git tools view of the workspace if they
> want to - who am I to say how a user should work? Eclipse does this
> kind of thing quite well with CVS precisely because it shares the
> workspace structures with the CVS command line tools rather than
> "re-inventing" the wheel.

In this case you just need to manage to use the current index format somehow.

Honestly I don't think Linus might be interested into changing the index format just to make a Java implementation happier. So your best bet is probably to use it as is or ignore it entirely.

Nicolas