Re: Transactions for git (and stgit) ?

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:49:19PM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:

On 2007-05-12 11:53:12 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:

quoted

It could even be more sensible to implement transactions at the git
level rather than at the stgit one...

Yes, please. (Unless a convincing technical argument pops up against
it, of course.) Any stgit invariant that isn't based on a git
invariant is one more thing that can break when git and stgit commands
are mixed.

For reference, I have written down some design ideas in january[1].
They were written with StGIT in mind, we'll have to see if it
transposes easily to plain git.

I fear it will not be that easy, at least with this design :)

OTOH, implementing transactions in StGIT could provide a first
experience on this particular field, that may later be transposed to
git core - not unlike cogito did for other features.  There is the
risk, however, of seeing a different (hopefully better) design for the
feature in git afterwards, and this in turn is likely to make life
harder for StGIT...

[1] http://marc.info/?t=116803935800001&r=1&w=2

Best regards,
-- 
Yann.