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LKML: Paul Jackson: Re: more git updates..
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Except that:<br /> (1) the cache just holds the current "view" into the git<br /> filesystem,<br /> (2) objects in the filesystem have an "inode" number (their<br /> <sha1> value) that is persistent whether in view or not,<br /> (3) objects in the filesystem are not removed just because<br /> nothing in the cache references them,<br /> (4) objects in the filesystem can reference other objects,<br /> that are typically also in the filesystem, but that can<br /> still be reliably self-identified even if found in the<br /> wild of say one's email inbox, and<br /> (5) the view in the directory cache can itself be made into<br /> a filesystem object - using commit-tree.<br /><br /><br />==============================================================<br /><br />Minor question:<br /><br /> I must have an old version - I got 'git-0.03', but<br /> it doesn't have 'checkout-cache', and its 'read-tree'<br /> directly writes my working files.<br /> <br /> How do I get a current version? Well, one way I see,<br /> and that's to pick up Pasky's:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/git/git-pasky-base.tar.bz2">http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/git/git-pasky-base.tar.bz2</a><br /> <br /> Perhaps that's the best way?<br /><br />-- <br /> I won't rest till it's the best ...<br /> Programmer, Linux Scalability<br /> Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401<br />-<br />To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in<br />the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org<br />More majordomo info at <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html">http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html</a><br />Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a><br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-04-11 01:21 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>