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

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

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:40

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 ;-)

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

From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:40

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
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 ;-)
As I said, this is highly unlikely, as certain people made sure that the 
Google Code people do not like Git.

Ciao,
Dscho

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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:40


On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
As I said, this is highly unlikely, as certain people made sure that the 
Google Code people do not like Git.
There are actually lots of sane and educated people inside google. Many of 
them freely acknowledge what a horrid thing SVN is.

			Linus
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