Re: metastore

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

david@lang.hm writes:

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Post-checkout trigger is something I can say I can live with
without looking at the actual patch, but that does not mean it
would be a better approach at all.

we agree on this much at least :-)

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I would not be able to answer the first question right now; that
needs a patch to prove that it can be done with a well contained
set of changes that results in a maintainable code.

you cannot answer the question in the affirmitive, but you could say
that any changes in that area would be completely unacceptable to you
(and for a while it sounded like you were saying exactly that). in
which case any effort put into preparing patches would be a waste of
time

I tend to disagree.  It's far from a waste of time.  While, as I
said, I am skeptical that such a patch would be small impact, if
it helps people's needs, somebody will pick it up and carry
forward, even if that somebody is not me.  It can then mature
out of tree and later could be merged.  We simply do not know
unless somebody tries.  And I am quite happy that you seem to be
motivated enough to see how it goes.

There's certainly the possibility that a changeset could consist of some 
patches that make the index/filesystem handling more clear, some patches 
that make the tree/index handling more clear, and some patches that allow 
a hook to replace one of these entirely. Things can be a lot more 
acceptable if the intrusive changes are improvements for the 
maintainability of the normal case, and the special case code is no longer 
intrusive at all.

	-Daniel
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