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Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress report

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 29, 2012, 18:33 UTC
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> Then I will twist Duy's words to mean that you should make git-ls-files
> the poster child of this new API for development and profiling purposes
> :-)
Exactly.
> Actually converting the rest of the git code base to such an API is too
> big an undertaking for the summer, so please don't stray on that path.

Didn't I say that this topic is too big for a GSoC task _way_ before GSoC organization application started? Without meaningful portion of the codebase using the newly proposed data stracture and giving demonstratably better performance figure, it is very hard to justify that the project completed successfully at the end of the summer.

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Message 13 of 13 in “[GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress report”
  1. Thomas GummererMay 23, 2012
  2. Thomas RastMay 24, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2012
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 25, 2012
  5. Thomas GummererMay 25, 2012
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 26, 2012
  7. Thomas GummererMay 27, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2012
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 27, 2012
  10. Thomas GummererMay 28, 2012
  11. Thomas RastMay 29, 2012
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMay 29, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2012

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