Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add a --nosort option to pack-objects

> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > As you can seen from my other message, I'm *actually* not sure this is
> > really material for git as a VCS. I will add documentation unrelated to
> > --nosort to pack-objects anyways.
> 
> Well, I have serious doubts about this patch in the first place.
> 
> I think it is simply unneeded.
> 
> If you want pack-objects not to change the sort order because you have 
> some sorting of your own, externally implemented, then you simply have 
> to run git-pack-objects feeding it the list of object SHA1s along with a 
> tag of your own which will effectively impose the sorting you want, 
> based on that tag.
> 
> Objects with the same tag will still be sorted amongst themselves which 
> is still a good thing.
> 
> for example, you may have something like:
> 
> 	git rev-list --all --objects |
> 	sed -e 's|foo/logs/.*|LOGS|' |
> 	git pack-objects ...
> 
> This will effectively cluster all foo/logs/* files together for delta 
> compression regardless of their actual name.  Maybe that's what you 
> really want?