Re: Submodule object store

From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2007, 23:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20070326235527.GM22773@admingilde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703261515330.14387@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>

hoi :)

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:20:34PM -0800, David Lang wrote:

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> >I want to be able to list all objects which are not reachable in the
> >object store, without traversing all submodules at the same time.
> >The only way I can think of to achieve this is to have one separate
> >object store per submodule and then do the traversal per submodule.
> 
> why do you want to optimize for the relativly rare fsck function rather 
> then the more common read functions (which would benifit from shareing 
> object that are identical between projects)?

Because I don't know how to make it _possible_ for large repositories otherwise. Consider a Linux-distribution which handles each package as one submodule.

I don't think that it's too much balanced towards fsck. The separated object store also helps reduce the memory requirement for large pushs/pulls. Sharing objects can be achieved by alternates if you want. If someone comes up with a nice way to handle everything in one big object store I would happily use that! :-)

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Martin Waitz