Re: Libification project (SoC)

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mar 19, 2007, 12:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20070319125233.GT18276@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703191329220.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:37:18PM CET, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Yes, you could write a program which can compare objects from several 
> repos, but that is easy in fact: just set GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES 
> and you're done. Without changing the core of Git at all!

But you'll also need to access refs.

And the key point here is reentrance - handling multiple repositories at once is only part of this, actually probably the much bigger customer would be multi-threaded programs. And easier creation of reusable components and other libraries, and so on...

I believe the performance impact will be most likely absolutely negligible. Of course we have no hard data, but I doubt it's this where most of the CPU crunching is.

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