Re: FFmpeg considering GIT

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: May 8, 2007, 04:06 UTC
Message-ID: <17983.63329.314321.305860@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <57600.59393.qm@web38909.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Brett Schwarz writes:

> What is the real issue? Is it that there isn't enough people to

The real issue is that I would like, if possible, to make it easier for people like Linus to hack on gitk and add cool features that I wouldn't necessarily think of.

> maintain gitk? I've been hiding in the bushes, mostly because of
> time issues, but if there's a real need, I'd be willing to help. I'm
> a seasoned Tcl/Tk coder, and wouldn't have any problems helping
> out.

That could be very useful, thanks.

> As Shawn mentions below, he started using namespaces for git-gui. I
> think gitk could benefit from that as well, along with a few other
> changes.

Gitk ends up handling pretty significant amounts of data. In particular the per-commit data can get to gigabytes, and processing it is pretty cpu-intensive. I did try using namespaces for the per-commit data but I found that the performance hit to be more than I was willing to tolerate.

Paul.