Hi, On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > ... > >> ... I am inclined to think that this is quite fundamental. I > >> think you just fell into category who want "extended semantics" > >> Linus talked about in $gmane/45214: > >> > >> I suspect that this gets some complaining off our back, but I *also* > >> suspect that people will actually end up really screwing themselves with > >> something like this and then blaming us and causing a huge pain down the > >> line when we've supported this and people want "extended semantics" that > >> are no longer clean. > >> > >> which is kind of dissapointing. > > I think this was the biggest worry. If even Dscho, who is among > a dozen people with the most intimate knowledge of git on the > planet, gets it wrong, I can almost guarantee that we will get > into the mess Linus predicted above. Flattering always works :-) > >> Even if you somehow solved the issue of "stat" rule, I do not > >> know what your plans are to manage the blobs that you drop in > >> the object store. The list of object names in the mail-index > >> file you are generating do not count as connectivity for the > >> purpose of fetch/push/fsck/prune. > > > > I had the idea to update a ref, which holds "trees" of message-id -> blob > > pairs, and get updated at the same time. > > I somehow thought this mailbox thing was because you wanted to > transfer mailboxes across repositories. How would you prevent > that ref from getting out of sync with the mail-index file git > knows nothing about its involvement in connectivity? If your suspicion was that I did not really think it through, then you're correct. Of course, I would have transferred _all_ refs anyway, since the whole point of the exercise is to lose nothing. However, I see where your argument is going. Since Julian pointed out that there is a maildir patch for pine, I'll probably go for that one, since it is hanging lower. 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