Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] [RFC] Speeding up checkout (and merge, rebase, etc)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 24, 2018, 21:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20180724212126.GB17803@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180724151336.GA1957@duynguyen.home>

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 05:13:36PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:

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> I guess you have the starting points you need after Jeff's and Junio's
> explanation (and it would be great if cache-tree could actually be for
> for this two-way merge). But to make it easier for new people in
> future, maybe we should add this?
> 
> This is basically a ripoff of Junio's explanation with starting points
> (write-tree and index-format.txt). I wanted to incorporate some pieces
> from Jeff's too but I think Junio's already covered it well.
> 
> -- 8< --
> Subject: [PATCH] cache-tree.h: more description of what it is and what's it used for

There is some discussion of this extension in Documentation/technical/index-format.txt. But it's mostly the mechanical bits, not how or why you would use it.

I like the idea of putting this explanation into the repo, though a lot of it is pretty specific to "diff-index --cached", which could potentially grow stale.

-Peff