From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200504210422.j3L4Mo8L021495@hera.kernel.org> <42674724.90005@ppp0.net> <20050422002922.GB6829@kroah.com> <426A4669.7080500@ppp0.net> <1114266083.3419.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <426A5BFC.1020507@ppp0.net> <1114266907.3419.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050423183406.GD20410@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Woodhouse , Jan Dittmer , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 23 21:24:46 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPQEr-0008Ca-W9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:24:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261731AbVDWT24 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:28:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261728AbVDWT24 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:28:56 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:42911 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261652AbVDWT2w (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:28:52 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3NJSds4030633 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:28:40 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3NJScpx014553; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:28:39 -0700 To: Jan Harkes In-Reply-To: <20050423183406.GD20410@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.35__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: > > Why not keep the tags object outside of the tree in the tags/ directory. Because then you have all those special cases with fetching them and with fsck, and with shared object directories. In other words: no. You can have symlinks (or even better, just a single file with all the tags listed, which you can create with "fsck", for example) from the tags/ directory, but the thing is, objects go in the object directory and nowhere else. Linus