From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:07 GMT Subject: Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack Message-ID: <49EF4867.8060002@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <20090422143503.GG23604@spearce.org> Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Mike Ralphson wrote: >> >>> 2009/4/22 Sam Vilain >>>> Now that the GSoC projects have been announced I can give you the good >>>> news that one of our two projects... >>> It's sort of three, really... >>> >>> http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/mono/t124022708105 >> OMG! That's the third time they are wasting Google's money: AFAICT they >> haven't learnt from the past two years' failures. At least I am not aware >> of any of them Mono guys trying to collaborate with us. > I offered to assist with reviewing patches or explaining technicalia to them last year (while I was learning a bit of C# myself), but got no patches or requests from them at all. >> Oh well, maybe I should drop them a mail that they may get valuable input >> here _iff_ they just ask. > > I've tried that in the past two years. I've given up. The JGit > code is available. Its license is quite liberal. They can look > at it if they want. My guess is, they won't. > I'm with Shawn here. They refuse to look at unmanaged code (that is, non-C# code), and since there is none yet, they're in a sort of catch-22 when it comes to reference implementations. Ah well. I'll join mono-develop mailing list again and see what I can do to help. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.