On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > DM> you can use external storage to use CAS-based storage, if you really want. > Ah, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Open_Source_Implementations > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Implementation
Neither git nor Linus Torvalds invented Content-Addressable Storage. They've been around for years, but we haven't ever needed it enough to implement it. I assume that if we did need it, we would, as Tim Starling, one of our staff developers, has been working actively on a history recompression project. > And while you're at it, he says subversion is for goners, > http://www.google.com/search?q=torvalds+subversion+git While we would like to move to a distributed RCS, we're not doing it because Linus Torvalds told us to. -- Andrew Garrett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
