Re: [PATCH v3] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

Maybe the config option shouldn't be a boolean, but a "how to instantiate 
objects". IOW, we could do

	[core]
		createobject = {link|rename}

instead. Maybe we some day could allow "inplace", for some totally broken 
system that supports neither renames nor links, and just wants the object 
to be created with the final name to start with.

(Ok, that sounds unlikely, but I mention it because it's an example of the 
concept. Maybe somebody likes crazy databases, and would like to have a 
"createobject = mysql" for some DB-backed loose object crap).

		Linus

More likely is "bigtable", I guess ;-)