Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:20:13PM CEST, I got a letter
where Thomas Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> The prereq graph is, indeed, an improvement.
..snip..
But object retrieval can be potentially as much as linear to the depth
of the prereq graph, right? I don't think any of the benefits you listed
are worth the complication, and you can still do the reachability
analysis pretty easily. (And I think it takes the same number of
roundtrips when downloading from remote server?)
> Other advantageous (imo) changes from `git' not mentioned in the
> original message:
>
> * blobs do not have header lines
>
> Git blobs all begin with a line of text declaring the "type"
> and size of the blob. That doesn't increase database
> verifiability significantly and I found no use for the headers.
> Having the headers makes it needlessly complicated to translate
> a file to or from a blob.
>
> `revc' does not have blob headers.
In git, this is crucial at least for distinguishing commits and tags.
I personally consider the verifiability boost useful.
> * `revc' uses portable file formats
>
> In working dirs, `git' stores binary files which are
> endian, word-size, and compiler-environment specific.
>
> `revc' stores some binary files too (for performance
> and simplicity reasons) but uses only portable formats.
I think they are only word-size specific, and that should be no big
matter to resolve, shall anyone want to.
> * `revc' is shaping up into much cleaner and more portable code
>
> (at least compared to the last version of `git' I saw --
> which was extremely *lucid* code but not terribly
> clean and not even attempting to be portable.)
All right, the portability could be better. ;-)
Kind regards,
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
<Espy> be careful, some twit might quote you out of context..
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