From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:41:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Memory overrun in http-push.c
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703011941020.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200703011831.29321.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> On Thursday 2007, March 01, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > The problem is: Git does not track files, but rather trees. So, there
> > is no sane way to add an Id.
> 
> > If the file is too big, your colleague can run it herself and send
> > you the object name (it is a 40 character hex string, but the first 8
> > or so should really be sufficient).
> 
> So when you say "there is no sane way to add an Id", you meant "here is 
> a perfect string that would act as an Id"?  ;-)

Got it.

So, in a very real sense, we have file ids. Even tree ids. And commit ids.

Ciao,
Dscho