From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:11:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone
Message-ID: <9e4733910609101911y25005ca6v7dfdbf20f95577f2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyezqlny.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 9/10/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> I do not see any advantage of making such a phoney object at
> all, but I do agree that the current one file per ref can be
> less than optimal when your repository has tons of tags or
> refs.

Here's a hack, instead of of putting the sha inside the file, put the
sha into the filename.

master_86a8534ba23a5532f6d0ddd01ecd8f02f662cf78

Now you can just do a directory listing and get all of the data
quickly. To keep the existing porcelain working add a symlink.

ln -s master_86a8534ba23a5532f6d0ddd01ecd8f02f662cf78 master

You might want the sha1 encoded names in a new directory

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com