Hi, On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > We already _have_ the data structures! > > Well... Shawn and I are contemplating alternate data structures to > improve things dramatically. I was alluding to rev_info, not pack_window and friends. > With a fixed public API I doubt such improvements could be as effective. Just think of the "API" we have for porcelains. It is literally unchanged since the beginning. You can even use the original script git-log.sh today! _That_ is what I mean by fixed public API: give certain guarantees about what will not go away. > One thing that was really done right in the Linux kernel is to _not_ > have any sort of fixed API at all for drivers. This is a big upside for > progress. Yet the Linux kernel is regarded as highly useful. Yes. I am a Linux user myself. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html