From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:28:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904280027540.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdopwxxa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > Maybe the config option shouldn't be a boolean, but a "how to instantiate 
> > objects". IOW, we could do
> >
> > 	[core]
> > 		createobject = {link|rename}
> >
> > instead. Maybe we some day could allow "inplace", for some totally broken 
> > system that supports neither renames nor links, and just wants the object 
> > to be created with the final name to start with.
> >
> > (Ok, that sounds unlikely, but I mention it because it's an example of the 
> > concept. Maybe somebody likes crazy databases, and would like to have a 
> > "createobject = mysql" for some DB-backed loose object crap).
> >
> > 		Linus
> 
> More likely is "bigtable", I guess ;-)

As I said, this is highly unlikely, as certain people made sure that the 
Google Code people do not like Git.

Ciao,
Dscho