From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:41:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] add object-cache infrastructure
Message-ID: <201107121241.40242.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110711161754.GB10418@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, 11 July 2011, Jeff King wrote:

> There is sometimes a need to cache some information about an
> object or set of objects persistently across git
> invocations. The notes-cache interface can be used for this,
> but it is very heavyweight and slow for storing small
> values.
> 
> This patch introduces a new API, object-cache, which stores
> a mapping of objects to values in a concise and efficient
> form. See the added API documentation for details.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> As I mentioned earlier, I wanted this to be generic and size-agnostic,
> because I'd also like to try caching patch-ids for git-cherry.

Could this API be generalized to support "reverse cache", for example
to map Subversion revision numbers to Git revision identifiers (for 
git-svn)?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland