Re: [PATCH 4/6] introduce a commit metapack
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
- Date
- Jan 29, 2013, 10:24 UTC
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On 01/29/2013 10:16 AM, Jeff King wrote:
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> When we are doing a commit traversal that does not need to > look at the commit messages themselves (e.g., rev-list, > merge-base, etc), we spend a lot of time accessing, > decompressing, and parsing the commit objects just to find > the parent and timestamp information. We can make a > space-time tradeoff by caching that information on disk in a > compact, uncompressed format. > > TODO: document on-disk format in Documentation/technical > TODO: document API
Would this be a good place to add the commit generation number that is so enthusiastically discussed on the mailing list from time to time?
Michael
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