From: Dana How Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:00:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] always start looking up objects in the last used pack first Message-ID: <56b7f5510706020800o10541844t151cb82221d077d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 5/31/07, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Which makes me wonder about a possible incremental improvement to my > patch: on failure to find an object in the last used pack, the search > should then start again from the pack containing the commit from which > this object search is related to. In the split pack case all commit > objects will be located in the first pack so nothing will change there. > In the multiple-fetch case then the search will always reset to packs > not younger than the commit triggering those object lookups. Question > is how to implement that nicely... My immediate reaction to this patch was that there should be a last-used-pack per object type. Or perhaps one for commits, and one for trees+blobs [since the latter are intermingled]? Unfortunately the interface only specifies the SHA-1, not the object type, and certainly not the "commit this is related to". I think your related-commit idea could be very useful, but it does require some extra info to be passed around which currently is not. -- Dana L. How danahow@gmail.com +1 650 804 5991 cell