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Re: [RFC 0/16] Introduce index file format version 5

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Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 3, 2012, 12:46 UTC
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On 08/03, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Series of patches to introduce the index version 5 file format. This
> > series does not include any fancy stuff like partial loading or partial
> > writing yet, though it's possible to do that with the new format.
> 
> I applied the series on top of master. I had to manually resolve
> 09/16. You may want to rebase the series on master for the reroll
> (less work for Junio) and remove trailing whitespaces in the patches.
Thanks, I'll do that for the reroll.
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> All tests passed (with v5 by default (*), I notice it now), which is
> wonderful. I'll have a closer look on the following days. Thank you
> for working on this.
> 
> (*) while it's good to run tests with v5 by default. I'm not sure if
> we should make it by default in the next git release that comes with
> v5. For one thing it'll stop older gits from using shared repos. And
> we're not sure whether v5 introduces significant overhead in common
> use cases.

I didn't intent to make index v5 the format, I just oversaw the hunk that was changing it. I completely agree that v5 should not be default yet to avoid any surprises, also for users of jgit, libgit2 etc.

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Message 36 of 38 in “[RFC 0/16] Introduce index file format version 5”
  1. Thomas GummererAug 2, 2012
  2. 01/16 Modify cache_header to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 2, 2012
  4. 02/16 Modify read functions to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  5. 03/16 Modify match_stat_basic to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 2, 2012
  7. Thomas GummererAug 2, 2012
  8. 04/16 Modify write functions to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 2, 2012
  10. Thomas GummererAug 2, 2012
  11. 05/16 t2104: Don't fail when index version is 5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  12. Thomas RastAug 3, 2012
  13. Thomas GummererAug 3, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2012
  15. 06/16 t3700: sleep for 1 second, to avoid interfering with the racy codeThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  16. 07/16 Add documentation of the index-v5 file formatThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  17. 08/16 Make in-memory format aware of stat_crcThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  18. 09/16 Read index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  19. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 2, 2012
  20. Thomas GummererAug 2, 2012
  21. 10/16 Read resolve-undo dataThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  22. 11/16 Read cache-tree in index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  23. Thomas RastAug 3, 2012
  24. Thomas GummererAug 3, 2012
  25. 12/16 Write index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  26. 13/16 Write index-v5 cache-tree dataThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  27. 14/16 Write resolve-undo data for index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  28. 15/16 update-index.c: add a force-rewrite optionThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  29. 16/16 p0002-index.sh: add perf test for the index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 2, 2012
  30. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 2, 2012
  31. Thomas GummererAug 2, 2012
  32. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 2, 2012
  33. Thomas GummererAug 2, 2012
  34. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 2, 2012
  35. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 3, 2012
  36. Thomas GummererAug 3, 2012
  37. Thomas RastAug 3, 2012
  38. Thomas GummererAug 3, 2012

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