Re: Calculating tree nodes

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2007, 03:54 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910709032054y4407ce62o6b21935502bfacdb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709040439070.28586@racer.site>

On 9/3/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > Are tree objects really needed?
>
> Yes.  For performance reasons, since a simple commit would kill you in any
> reasonably sized repo.

That's not an obvious conclusion. A new commit is just a series of edits to the previous commit. Start with the previous commit, edit it, delta it and store it. Storing of the file objects is the same. Why isn't this scheme fast than the current one?

>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>

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Jon Smirl
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