Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And dammit, if I'm the original author and likely biggest power-user, and
_I_ can't be bothered to use special filesystems, then who can? Nobody.
If someone is motivated enough, and if the task is quite trivial (as it
seems to be) someone may try it. I can see nothing wrong with it as long
as it doesn't affect other people.
This is why I absolutely do not believe in arguments like if your
filesystem doesn't do tail packing, you shouldn't use it or if your
don't have name hashing enabled in your filesystem it's broken.
Of course. But one may consider using a filesystem with, say, different
settings. Or a special filesystem for this task, such as CNFS used by
news servers (it seems news servers do quite the same what git does,
except they also purge old contents, i.e., container files don't grow up).
I'm perfectly willing to optimize for the common case, but that's as far
as it goes. I do not want to make fundamental design decisions that depend
on the target filesystem having some particular feature.
The optimization would be (in) the underlying filesystem (i.e., the OS
thing, or possibly a shared preloaded library?), not git itself.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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