From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:02:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Calculating tree nodes
Message-ID: <46a038f90709041402k45d72dc6l59f93cd22b8c02e9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46DD7660.2030109@op5.se>

On 9/5/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > The
> > essential part of the commit is the SHA1 list. The path names belong
> > to the file objects and should be stored there.
>
> Sorry, but it'll take code and benchmarks to convince me this is a
> good idea.

Same here. But I do want to note that adding the pathname to the blob
(and storing them on the combined SHA1 I assume) is broken, broken,
broken. It won't support any of the great semantics that git has
today.

Jon: I think you need to think carefully about the key operations like
diff and log on paths on projects like linux or mozilla. Even better,
craft a proof-of-concept patch that shows how that'd work, and why
it's faster/smaller.

cheers,



m