Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261358AbVDIRgG (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:36:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261359AbVDIRgG (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:36:06 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:40657 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261358AbVDIRgC (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:36:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:35:25 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, matthias.christian@tiscali.de, andrea@suse.de, cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-Id: <20050409103525.6f65d550.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071428.GB3957@opteron.random> <4256AE0D.201@tiscali.de> <4256C0F8.6030008@pobox.com> <20050409084003.02c83b9f.pj@engr.sgi.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1069 Lines: 24 > (b) while I depend on the fact that if the SHA of an object matches, the > objects are the same, I generally try to avoid the reverse > dependency. It might be a valid point that you want to leave the door open to using a different (than SHA1) digest. (So this means you going to store it as an ASCII string, right?) But I don't see how that applies here. Any optimization that avoids rereading old versions if the digests match will never trigger on the day you change digests. No problem here - you doomed to reread the old version in any case. Either you got your logic backwards, or I need another cup of coffee. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/