From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: I want to release a "git-1.0" Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:47:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20050603094706.GB24873@pasky.ji.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Eric W. Biederman" , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 03 11:45:41 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1De8j6-0006Hm-BN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:44:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261199AbVFCJr1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 05:47:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261202AbVFCJr1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 05:47:27 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:56801 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261199AbVFCJrJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 05:47:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 25550 invoked by uid 2001); 3 Jun 2005 09:47:06 -0000 To: Daniel Barkalow Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dear diary, on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:00:55AM CEST, I got a letter where Daniel Barkalow told me that... > It shouldn't be hard to do one, except that locking with rsync is going to > be a pain. I had a patch to make it work with the rpush/rpull pair, but I > didn't get its dependancies in at the time. Was that the patch I was replying to recently? It didn't seem to have any dependencies. > I can dust those patches off again if you want that functionality included. > > The patches are essentially: > > - make the transport protocol handle things other than objects > - library procedure for locking atomic update of refs files > - fetching refs in general > - rpull/rpush that updates a specified ref file atomically > > At least the first would be very nice to get in before 1.0, since it is an > incompatible change to the protocol. I would like to have this a lot too. Pulling tags now is a PITA, and I definitively want to go in this way. So it will land at least in git-pb. :-) (But that's a little troublesome if you say it's incompatible change.) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor