Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261398AbVDIW6H (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:58:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261401AbVDIW6H (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:58:07 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:44989 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261398AbVDIW6E (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:58:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:55:11 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Linus Torvalds Cc: andrea@suse.de, mbp@sourcefrog.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dlang@digitalinsight.com Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-Id: <20050409155511.7432d5c7.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20050407014727.GA17970@havoc.gtf.org> <1112852302.29544.75.camel@hope> <1112939769.29544.161.camel@hope> <20050408083839.GC3957@opteron.random> <20050409022701.GA14085@opteron.random> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP 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: 973 Lines: 22 On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > Also, I don't want people editing repostitory files by hand. Sure, the > sha1 catches it, but still... I'd rather force the low-level ops to use > the proper helper routines. Which is why it's a raw zlib compressed blob, > not a gzipped file. I understand the arguments for compression, but I hate it for one simple reason: recovery is more difficult when you corrupt some file in your repository. It's happened to me more than once and I did lose data. Without compression, I might be able to recover if something causes a block of zeros to be written to the middle of some repository file. With compression, you pretty much just lose. - 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/