Re: FFmpeg considering GIT

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 8, 2007, 04:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20070508041939.GK11311@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <17983.63329.314321.305860@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

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> Brett Schwarz writes:
> > 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.

If that is the case then an obvious direction is to start using C for the actual Git operations/datastore and Tcl/Tk for the basic UI layout and event handlers.

If we go down that path for gitk then I may wind up doing the same for git-gui. Because gitk would require the tcl/tk heders and libraries at that point, so also requiring them for git-gui wouldn't be too unreasonable.

But fortunately git-gui doesn't have to deal with gigabytes of data; I'm only really looking at the "dirty" stuff, or at worst, the blame for an entire file.

-- 
Shawn.