On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
DM> you can use external storage to use CAS-based storage, if you really want. Ah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Open_Source_Impleme... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Implementation
Neither git nor Linus Torvalds invented Content-Addressable Storage. They've been around for years, but we haven't ever needed it enough to implement it. I assume that if we did need it, we would, as Tim Starling, one of our staff developers, has been working actively on a history recompression project.
And while you're at it, he says subversion is for goners, http://www.google.com/search?q=torvalds+subversion+git
While we would like to move to a distributed RCS, we're not doing it because Linus Torvalds told us to.