On Tue, June 28, 2005 6:49 pm, Matt Mackall said: > Again, have fun with that. Mercurial already went down this path a > month ago, discovered it couldn't reasonably be fixed without > abandoning the hashes as file name scheme, and changed repo layout. > > Git's going to have a much harder time as it's pretty solidly tied to > lookup by contents hash. If you throw that out, you might as well use > Mercurial. > By the sounds of it, git could just use Mecurial or some variation thereof as a back end. Git is not tied to it's back end. Afterall, Mecurial just took the basic ideas from Linus' and adapted them to a different back end. But there are very few situation where Git performance is a practical problem, and where it is things are being addressed. Git is already so much better for the things I do than BK ever was, I'll stick with it. Sean. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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