Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> You have to be careful, though. Depending on what kind of >> transformation you implement with the external tools, you would >> end up having to slow down everything we would do. > > So what? > > We provide a rope with proper caveat emptor. Up to others to hang > themselves with it if they so desire. It is not our problem anymore. I sort-of find it hard to believe hearing this from somebody who muttered something about importance of perception a few days ago. >> I suspect that you would have to play safe and say "when >> external tools are involved, we need to disable the existing >> content SHA-1 based optimization for all paths that ask for >> them" to keep your sanity. > > Maybe. If that is what's really needed then so be it. People who > really want to do strange things will have the flexibility to do so, but > they'll have to pay the price in loss of performance. Not just that. We end up having to pay the price of maintaining hooks to let them do crazy things. - 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