RE: on when to checksum

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Timberlake-Newell
Tom Lord graced us with: > I think you have made a mistake by moving the sha1 checksum from the > zipped form to the inflated form. Here is why: > > What you have set in motion with `git' is an ad-hoc p2p network for > sharing filesystem trees -- a global distributed filesystem. I > believe your

RE: missing: git api, reference, user manual and mission statement

2005-04-20 Thread Andrew Timberlake-Newell
Petr Baudis graced us with: > Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:36:32PM CEST, I got a letter > where Klaus Robert Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > 1) There is no clear (e.g. by name) distinction between ``git as done > > by Linus'', which is a kind of content addressable data

RE: Handling renames.

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Timberlake-Newell
Zach Welch pontificated: > I imagine quite a few folks expect something not entirely unlike an SCM > to emerge from these current efforts. Moreover, Petr's 'git' scripts > wrap your "filesystem" plumbing to that very end. > > To avoid confusion, I think it would be better to distinguish the two >