Re: [PATCH v2 05/14] commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph --write

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2018, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq607fc8j8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kb8kHAb6HYrxY_oMq5v3p1+AHX_ad40nwUEwiDKe=i+Ng@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> It is true for git-submodule and a few others (the minority of commands IIRC)
> git-tag for example takes subcommands such as --list or --verify.
> https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqiomodkt9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com/

Thanks. It refers to an article at gmane, which is not readily accessible unless you use newsreader. The original discussion it refers to appears at:

    https://public-inbox.org/git/7vbo5itjfl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/

for those who are interested.

I am still not sure if it is a good design to add a new command like this series does, though. I would naively have expected that this would be a new pack index format that is produced by pack-objects and index-pack, for example, in which case its maintenance would almost be invisible to end users (i.e. just like how the pack bitmap feature was added to the system).