From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:51:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Git's database structure
Message-ID: <46DEC26E.7030809@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910709050641j34d58683ra72caa52c56cdf0f@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> The path name field needs to be moved back into the blobs to support
> alternative indexes. For example I want an index on the Signed-off-by
> field. I use this index to give me the SHAs for the blobs
> Signed-off-by a particular person. In the current design I have no way
> of recovering the path name for these blobs other than a brute force
> search following every path looking for the right SHA.
> 

Ah, there we go. A use-case at last :)

So now we have a concrete problem that we can formulate thus:
"How can one create a database listing the relationship between 'signers'
and blobs?"

So the second question: Do you seriously argue that git should take a
huge performance loss on its common operations to accommodate a need that
I suspect very few people have?

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