Re: Can I have this, pretty please?
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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- Aug 12, 2007, 19:28 UTC
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On 8/12/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> IOW, showing the whole history for a big project is simply pretty > expensive. If you have a hundred thousand commits, just keeping track of > the tree structure *is* going to take megabytes and megabytes of data. > Limiting the size of the problem is usually a really good solution, > especially since most people tend to care about what happened in the last > few days, not what happened five months ago.
Could the topological graph for a packfile be computed at pack time and stored in the packfile so that gitk doesn't have to keep recomputing it? Does it work to merge multiple precomputed graphs retrieved from the pack files?
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com