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Re: QGit: Shrink used memory with custom git log format

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 27, 2007, 01:52 UTC
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Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Now instead of --pretty=raw a custom made --pretty=format is given,
> this shrinks loaded data of 30% (17MB less on Linux tree) and gives a
> good speed up when you are low on memory (especially on big repos)
> 
> Next step _would_ be to load log message body on demand (another 50%
> reduction) but this has two drawbacks:
> 
> (1) Text search/filter on log message would be broken
> 
> (2) Slower to browse through revisions because for each revision an
> additional git-rev-list /git-log command should be executed to read
> the body
> 
> The second point is worsted by the fact that it is not possible to
> keep a command running and "open" like as example git-diff-tree
> --stdin and feed with additional revision's sha when needed. Avoiding
> the burden to startup a new process each time to read a new log
> message given an sha would let the answer much more quick especially
> on lesser OS's
> 
> Indeed there is a git-rev-list --stdin option but with different
> behaviour from git-diff-tree --stdin and not suitable for this.

There was a proposed patch for git-cat-file that would let you run it in a --stdin mode; the git-svn folks wanted this to speed up fetching raw objects from the repository. That may help as you could get commit bodies (in raw format - not reencoded format!) quite efficiently.

Otherwise I think what you really want here is a libgit that you can link into your process and that can efficiently inflate an object on demand for you. Like the work Luiz was working on this past summer for GSOC. Lots of downsides to that current tree though... like die() kills the GUI...

-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Marco CostalbaNov 24, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceNov 27, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 27, 2007
  4. Marco CostalbaNov 27, 2007
  5. Jan HudecNov 27, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  7. jhud7196@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.czNov 28, 2007

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