Re: Significant performance waste in git-svn and friends

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> >
> >> The same things obviously apply to git-cvsimport and other scripts
> >> calling git-hash-object a lot.
> >
> > I wonder if letting fast-import handle the object creation is an
> > option, though.
> 
> I think it would be saner to give git-hash-object an operation mode
> that makes it usable as a pipe-controlled daemon, so that one needs
> not fork and exec for interning another object.  That way, porcelain
> commands could keep one bidirectional pipe (feed object type and
> source and whether to use -w into git-hash-project, receive object id)
> to git-hash-object around until they finish.