Re: more git updates..

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I suspect that I have to change the file format. Maybe make the "tree" 
> object a two-level thing, and have a "directory" object.
> 
> Then a "tree" object would point to a "directory" object, which would in
> turn point to the individual files (and other "directory" objects, of
> course). That way a commit that only changes a few files will only need to
> create a few new "directory" objects, instead of creating one huge "tree"
> object.

Actually, I guess I wouldn't have to change the format. I could just 
extend the existing "tree" object to be able to point to other trees, and 
that's it.

The downside of that is that then a tree wouldn't have a canonical format 
any more: you could have two trees that have the exact same content, but 
they'd haev different names. They should obviously merge very easily (and 
thus you could create a new merge that _does_ have a common name), but 
it's ugly.

I'll have to think about it. It's good to notice these issues early, this 
was the first time I had actually tried to check in a kernel-sized tree 
for real.

		Linus
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