Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> While reworking the index into a tree (not to mention if it's in database format),
> the backward compatibility would be broken anyway from what I understood?
> Therefore taking Shawns thoughts into account should not be a lot more work
> and should make it also easier to implement for the .git reading programs,
> since it's easier to parse for the core it should also be easier to parse for them.
>
> Then if changing the checksum algorithm can bring some advantage I think
> it should be well worth the extra work while we break compatibility in any case.
AFAICS we are in agreement. I was saying it's not worth breaking
compatibility for *only* the checksum change. You are coming from the
other side: "once all the rest is done, the checksum change is easy",
which is probably true.
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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