From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 18:33:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress report
Message-ID: <7vzk8q4z1k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87vcjfi09m.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

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.