On 11/28/07, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:07:29PM -0500, Geert Bosch wrote: > > > I have always wondered why refs and tags are not > > in the regular object store. In a way, there > > should be just one root pointer (SHA1) pointing > > to a tree with refs, etc. > > Assuming that they also retain the "having an object implies having all > of the objects it points to" property, then it makes it hard to talk > about subsets or single refs. If I fetch from you and you communicate > your repo state as some hash, then I am stuck getting _all_ of your > refs to complete this property. push/pull would still work at the branch level. The local state tracking objects wouldn't be exchanged. > > -Peff > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - 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
