Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261784AbVDWUuM (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:50:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261793AbVDWUuM (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:50:12 -0400 Received: from DELFT.AURA.CS.CMU.EDU ([128.2.206.88]:24982 "EHLO delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261784AbVDWUuE (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:50:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:49:57 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Woodhouse , Jan Dittmer , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. Message-ID: <20050423204957.GA16751@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , David Woodhouse , Jan Dittmer , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List , Git Mailing List 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Jan Harkes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1447 Lines: 32 On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:30:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. I respectfully disagree, rsync works fine for now, but people are already looking at implementing smarter (more efficient) ways to synchronize git repositories by grabbing missing commits, and from there fetching any missing tree and file blobs. However there is no such linkage to discover missing tag objects, only a full rsync would be able to get them and for that it has to send the name of every object in the repository to the other side to check for any missing ones. So fetching tags is already going to be a special case. And any form of validation of a tag is a special operation. In fact tags could be as simple as a the sha of an (like pasky's tags) followed by the detached pgp signature of the tagged object instead of trying to signing the tag itself. That also avoids having to strip the signature part from the tag when we want to validate it. Jan - 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/