Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > To my ears, it rhymes rather well with a famous quote from $gmane/217: > > You're freezing your (crappy) algorithm at tree creation time, and > basically making it pointless to ever create something better later, > because even if hardware and software improves, you've codified that > "we have to have crappy information". > > After reading the discussion so far, I am still not convinced if this is a > good idea, nor this time around it is that much different from what the > previous "prior" link discussion tried to do. Yup. Same here. I didn't see any information about why this "origin" link is needed here, just how it might work. And some of that "how" scared me because it was doing some sort of "soft" reachability, where errors aren't noticed but we are expected to protect the data from prune/repack forever once it has entered the repository. -- Shawn. -- 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
