Re: [(not so) random thoughts] using git as its own caching tool

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:35:19PM +0000, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

Pierre Habouzit wrote:

quoted

 So am I having crazy thoughts and should I throw my crack-pipe away ?
Or does parts of this mumbling makes any sense to someone ?

A bit of both ;-)

I like the idea to use the git object store, because that certainly
has an API that can't be done away with by user config. The reflog
and its expiration mechanism is subject to human control though, and
everyone doesn't even have them enabled. I don't for some repos where
I know I'll create a thousand-and-one loose objects by rebasing,
--amend'ing and otherwise fiddling with history rewrites.

Having a tool that works on some repos but not on others because it
relies on me living with an auto-gc after pretty much every operation
would be very tiresome indeed.

  Well if you disable the reflog on some repositories, those commands
will just be slow. But would still work.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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