Re: Submodule object store

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 27, 2007, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID: <200703271856.09492.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070327155306.GQ22773@admingilde.org>

On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Martin Waitz wrote:

> For any other way to separate the odb (project id, whatever), we
> can't get a list of references into it by a path-limited traversal
> in the parent. Thus separate odbs which are not bound to a special
> location have some serious downsides.

For path-limited traversal, you still need to know all the paths with super/subproject boundaries somewhere in the history. Do you store this information somewhere? If so, how is this different from directly storing the boundaries (aside from size)?

Josef

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