From: Thomas Rast Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:39:45 GMT Subject: Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress Report week 8 Message-ID: <878vfo1you.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: <20120611205312.GB18686@tgummerer> Thomas Gummerer writes: > == Outlook for the next week == > > - Continue implementing the API as discussed on [5]. > > [5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198283/focus=198474 Sorry for being rather slow this week! I still intend to do another review of the github code RSN, however I felt I should point out some more IRC conclusions to the list. I talked Thomas out of going forward with the API as the next step, and instead work towards having a writer side for the current format. This should have some benefits: * The code becomes more easily testable, and hopefully able to run the test suite. * Spelling the writer in code should shake down any unforeseen deficiencies of the format. Until update-index or similar learn to use the partial writing facilities, we should have a little extra tool here that allows poking at a single entry for testing. * The API will need to have an updating and a writing side, and what that should look like will become clearer. That does mean that the API-demo in git-ls-files (suggested by Duy) will likely have to wait until after midterms. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch