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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Stahlir" <peter.stahlir@googlemail.com>,
	"Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:56:38 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90709211656n5b23783eu330e8b655cd42aa8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921172941.GA7399@potapov>

On 9/22/07, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> used to create the original file. So, if you put any .deb file in such
> a system, you will get back a different .deb file (with a different SHA1).
> So, aside high CPU and memory requirements, this system cannot work in
> principle unless all users have exactly the same version of a compressor.

Was thinking the same - compression machinery, ordering of the files,
everything. It'd be a nightmare to ensure you get back the same .deb,
without a single different bit.

Debian packaging toolchain could be reworked to use a more GIT-like
approach - off the top of my head, at least

  - signing/validating the "tree" of the package rather than the
completed package could allow the savings in distribution you mention,
decouple the signing from the compression, and simplify things like
debdiff

  - git or git-like strategies for source packages

cheers,


m

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-21 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-21 10:51 Git as a filesystem Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 11:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-21 11:41   ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 12:53     ` Karl Hasselström
2007-09-21 13:28       ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 13:41         ` Michael Poole
2007-09-21 14:38         ` jlh
2007-09-21 17:29         ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-09-21 23:56           ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2007-09-22  3:09             ` Sam Vilain
2007-09-21 13:22     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-21 13:35       ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 13:45         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-21 15:46         ` Christian von Kietzell
2007-09-21 23:33       ` Eric Wong
2007-09-21 23:42         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-22  2:06           ` Eric Wong
2007-09-22 12:06             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-21 14:22   ` Miklos Vajna

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