Jon Smirl wrote:
On 9/4/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote:
Jon Smirl wrote:
Another way of looking at the problem,
Let's build a full-text index for git. You put a string into the index
and it returns the SHAs of all the file nodes that contain the string.
How do I recover the path names of these SHAs?
I wouldn't know, but presumably any table can have more than one column.
Is this a problem you face with git so often that it requires a complete
re-design of its very core?
That's the whole point. We need to discuss the impact of merging a
field (path names) with an index (tree nodes) has on future things we
may want to do with the data stored in git.
Yes, but as nobody seems to know what those future things are, it feels
rather pointless speculating about adding support to git for them. git
is a tool. It's a great one at that, because it was built to solve a
particular problem, which it does an amazing job at.
Other SCM's which had the potential to become amazingly good tools too
drowned somewhere between prototype and product in a sea of intellectual
masturbation, which had little to do with solving real-world problems.
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