Re: fast-import tweaks for remote helpers

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2010, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20101212171633.GB18847@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4D049BA5.1060509@vilain.net>

Sam Vilain wrote:

> What happened to --report-fd ?

The patch still works. The main problem with report-fd is that it introduced a synchronization point after every commit: the frontend has to read the commit id before fast-import will continue.

So if the reports can be made optional ("report _this_ commit") or batched ("report all marked commits") then the result would be easier to use imho.

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>> (In the back of my mind, I have the idea of using a
>> file that allows O(1) access, perhaps of the form
>>
>>	<commit name for rev 1>  NL
>>	<commit name for rev 2>  NL
>>	...
>
> This doesn't scale to many branches

Right. Another reason to delay getting rid of the git branch with the full repo.