Re: Summer of Code project ideas due this Friday
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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- Mar 10, 2011, 17:31 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:30, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >> 7. packfilev4. > > I suspect that is too complex for a SoC project. But you never know.
It is. Nico is also probably working on it.
My big concern with pack v4 right now is the on-disk format of commits/trees is different from the current wire protocol. If a pack v2 only client connected to a server using pack v4, the server would have to spend a lot of time to inflate/deflate about 60% of the objects in the repository (commits and trees). That is a lot of CPU time. So even if a SoC-er finished the work, it probably wouldn't be merged because of this penalty.
-- Shawn.