From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:11:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] index-pack: produce pack index version 3
Message-ID: <7vtxw8exii.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1344772889-8978-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> The main reason to group objects by type is to make it possible to
> create another sha1->something mapping for a particular object type,
> without wasting space for storing sha-1 keys again. For example, we
> can store commit caches, tree caches... at the end of the index as
> extensions.

Why can't you do the same with a single "sorted by SHA-1" table?

Not impressed yet.