Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2012, #01; Tue, 4)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2012, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhar9uz58.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120907130813.GC25467@tommy-fedora.scientificnet.net>

Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 09/04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> * tg/index-v5 (2012-08-17) 13 commits
>> ...
>> A GSoC project.  Was waiting for comments from mentors and
>> stakeholders, but nothing seems to be happening, other than breakage
>> fixes on Cygwin.  May discard.
>
> I was planning on continuing to work on this topic as part of my Bachelor
> Thesis.  I had a brief discussion with Thomas Rast on IRC about this
> today.  Because I am planning to implement an api for partial loading
> we decided it's probably best to hold off until that's implemented,
> because parts of this series may change and it's going to take me a while
> to implement the api.

Sounds good.

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> As for the actual look of the api, I think something along the lines of
> what was discussed at [1] would fit well.
>
> The commands would then learn to use this api. (First the commands that
> just read the index and later the commands that read and write the index,
> but for that the api will have to support writing the index)
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198283/focus=198739

Yeah, I think that one, even though it was a small set, would be a good starting point. Looking forward to seeing this moving forward; no need to rush.

Thanks.