On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Any reason not to simply append objects to an existing packfile? What happens when somebody screws up in the middle? The one thing I care about more than anything else is consistency. We are careful about writing objects in the right order, and we can re-create the state from the originator etc. But if we start appending stuff and something goes wrong in the middle, I'm just not going to touch it. A "truncate and hope for the best" algorithm? Besides, the result is not a valid git archive any more. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Jul 09 16:44:00 2005
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