From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [git wiki PATCH 2/3] "Designing a faster index format" project Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:24:09 -0800 Message-ID: <7vobseeu9i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <57e8b4eb7a98af33982c2f3a763e18f62b1d6d6d.1330686331.git.trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 02 19:25:08 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3XA6-0006SG-UX for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:25:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759019Ab2CBSYb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:24:31 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:52792 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759005Ab2CBSYO (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:24:14 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A2B60D5; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:24:11 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=xJBp9Wf6G4P/oOTf2KltPMT+Pek=; b=BWD2Hd xFJYczJ7sfFMLqdU1KjMt1rNzQjuycIvVa28DFjGYldp2AflQbCfxdxFvEmmREix 2dGaEdpRh0lxtvv4k8/N57VRPdm9kv2wIkVbsiCfFo5myTLrYIwRRuITp9+4yVAo xe9Hz8tiq/MGrm0TbDnIY78PSeFjh8WIJ24U8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=sRK5U0/DC54Pnha1mKymc2NoEG3uw4Bh Z1C9W2EqD2mBML5Nsi/4mLTKUdCiTW+9PvP661kVNKKNcM0A4fxaZS7Fz4+87uGd YuHsVmDqv8LcMvMfHvNyCFxY878Imr2B0tybPkwBbfLcWUR2kWhzvFsqgH7FdWQf UjF90MdVUFc= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895EE60D4; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:24:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1EEA460D1; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:24:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Thomas Rast's message of "Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:05:46 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E832593C-6494-11E1-9094-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Having harder and more ambitious ones in the mix is OK, but I suspect this one is probably a bit too ambitious to be realistic for a student project that lasts only 3 months. This proposal is about a change that touches core parts of the system that has the chance of inflicting permanent damage to end users' histories. I'd have a hard time reviewing and convincing myself that the change is good, if such a change were done by somebody new to the system, even if the work were mentored very closely by one of our top 15 committers.