RE: on when to checksum

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Timberlake-Newell
Tom Lord graced us with: > I think you have made a mistake by moving the sha1 checksum from the > zipped form to the inflated form. Here is why: > > What you have set in motion with `git' is an ad-hoc p2p network for > sharing filesystem trees -- a global distributed filesystem. I > believe your

Re: on when to checksum

2005-04-20 Thread Tom Lord
(I'll have to study/think about that for a while before a proper reply. Tomorrow, probably.) Thanks, -t - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: on when to checksum

2005-04-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Tom Lord wrote: > > How many times per day do you invoke `write-tree' and why? Every single commit does a write-tree, so when I merge with Andrew, it's usually a series of 100-250 of them in a row. (Actually, _usualyl_ it's smaller series, but it's the big series that can

Re: on when to checksum

2005-04-20 Thread Tom Lord
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Tom Lord wrote: > > I think you have made a mistake by moving the sha1 checksum from the > zipped form to the inflated form. Here is why: I'd have agreed with you (and I did, violently) if it wasn't for the perf

Re: on when to checksum

2005-04-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Tom Lord wrote: > > I think you have made a mistake by moving the sha1 checksum from the > zipped form to the inflated form. Here is why: I'd have agreed with you (and I did, violently) if it wasn't for the performance issues. It makes a huge difference for write-tree, and