From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 23:44:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #2 (shallow clone again)
Message-ID: <46a038f90605071644g7c7628celc097f69b310c2db5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vveshif1i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/8/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> It shouldn't.  The existing packfile is designed to make "git
> log" very efficient, by making it cheap to look only at the
> commit message and ancestry information.
>
> The objects are sorted first by type in the pack with the
> existing code already, and commits come first.  Try this.

Thanks for the explanation! My ignorance in the pre-coffee stage of
Monday is... exemplary. I should know better than assume that there
are trivial optimizations for git that I can come up with ;-)

I guess I should get more into the pack stuff and educate myself --
everyone's having fun with it... grumble, will have to brush up my C
to get to play.

cheers,


martin