From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:32:52 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: Flat directory for notes, or fan-out? Both!
Message-ID: <7vljsdly7f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902102316.56348.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Or we could use an on-disk hashmap.  Oh, wait...
>
> While reading this thread, I sure wondered ... why don't we use the
> one on-disk fast access structure we already have: the index?

Since when the index has become a on-disk fast access structure?

> Sure, one problem is that the index reading code is inherently written
> for a single index state.

That's wrong, but because the index is not a on-disk fast access structure
to begin with, the incorrect statement about it is excused ;-)