From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:07:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 17 19:08:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdrAF-00011t-Gk for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:08:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031234AbXDQRIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:08:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031230AbXDQRID (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:08:03 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:64939 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031228AbXDQRH6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:07:58 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3HH7k2S015283 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:07:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Hdr9e-0007Qn-Pn; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:07:46 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hdr9e-0006GY-NJ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:07:46 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue\, 17 Apr 2007 08\:28\:22 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:07:47 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IMAG DMI for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >> * Perhaps your boss will be interested in the "data integrity" (i.e. >> git fsck) problem too. > > The data integrity thing is a lot more than just fsck. I have to revise my latin ;-). I meant _e. g._ git fsck, and the fact that just given the full revision ID, you can make sure that both the data and the history are uncorrupted is obviously a strong point for data integrity, but not the only one (things like "add, don't replace" policy is another). -- Matthieu