Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261363AbVDMO6U (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:58:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261361AbVDMO6T (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:58:19 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55725 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261339AbVDMO6E (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:58:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:59:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Woodhouse cc: Petr Baudis , Kernel Mailing List , "Randy.Dunlap" , Ross Vandegrift , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3 In-Reply-To: <1113403661.20848.144.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <20050410024157.GE3451@pasky.ji.cz> <20050410162723.GC26537@pasky.ji.cz> <20050411015852.GI5902@pasky.ji.cz> <20050411135758.GA3524@pasky.ji.cz> <1113311256.20848.47.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050413094705.B1798@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050413085954.GA13251@pasky.ji.cz> <1113384304.12012.166.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <1113403661.20848.144.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 26 On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > In other words, that index file simply _cannot_ be shared. Don't even > > think about it. Only madness will ensue. > > If I use git in my home directory I cannot _help_ but share it. > Sometimes I'm using it from a BE box, sometimes from a LE box. Should I > really be forced to use separate checkouts for each type of machine? Now, that kind of "private sharing" should certainly be ok. In fact, the only locking there is (doing the ".git/index.lock" thing around any updates and erroring out if it already exists) was somewhat designed for that. So making it use BE data (preferred just because then you can use the existing htonl() etc helpers in user space) would work. As long as people don't think this means anything else... It really is a private file. Linus - 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/