On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, I don't want people editing repostitory files by hand. Sure, the > sha1 catches it, but still... I'd rather force the low-level ops to use > the proper helper routines. Which is why it's a raw zlib compressed blob, > not a gzipped file. I understand the arguments for compression, but I hate it for one simple reason: recovery is more difficult when you corrupt some file in your repository. It's happened to me more than once and I did lose data. Without compression, I might be able to recover if something causes a block of zeros to be written to the middle of some repository file. With compression, you pretty much just lose. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
