Re: Supressing sorting of trees

From: Ealdwulf Wuffinga <ealdwulf@googlemail.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2009, 20:49 UTC
Message-ID: <efe2b6d70910131349n4cab61d0h9a9c8099830095f9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20091012T182258-9@post.gmane.org>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Sal Mangano <smangano@into-technology.com> wrote:

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> 1) I can write by repository from scratch.
> 2) I can use Git unchanged but preserve order by storing some information in
> each sub tree (e.g. an extra blob) which retains the real order. I can also
> store this information once for the whole "chunks" of the repository.
> 3) I can change Git to suite my needs understanding that it is not Git
> anymore.
>
> For me, (1) makes no sense at this time. I started with the hope that (2)
> would work but realized it is very awkward and will cause performance problems
> because it means most updates where ordering matters will have to update the
> Git trees and my private ordering blob(s). So, after a quick look at the
> source code it seemed like hacking Git into what I wanted was easier than 1
> or 2.

You could add a prefix to the names so you get the order you want. Eg: a-foo b-bar c-baz

If you need to move foo to between bar and baz, you just rename it to ba-foo, etc.

Ealdwulf