Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261740AbVDWT25 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:28:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261727AbVDWT24 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:28:56 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:42911 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261652AbVDWT2w (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:28:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Harkes cc: David Woodhouse , Jan Dittmer , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. In-Reply-To: <20050423183406.GD20410@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: References: <200504210422.j3L4Mo8L021495@hera.kernel.org> <42674724.90005@ppp0.net> <20050422002922.GB6829@kroah.com> <426A4669.7080500@ppp0.net> <1114266083.3419.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <426A5BFC.1020507@ppp0.net> <1114266907.3419.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050423183406.GD20410@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> 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: 741 Lines: 20 On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: > > Why not keep the tags object outside of the tree in the tags/ directory. Because then you have all those special cases with fetching them and with fsck, and with shared object directories. In other words: no. You can have symlinks (or even better, just a single file with all the tags listed, which you can create with "fsck", for example) from the tags/ directory, but the thing is, objects go in the object directory and nowhere else. 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/