Re: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2016, 03:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Ah2VH8mE7wMi0pVvUDKq3ic7AkwmCPa4oGnDSMGcD-hA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Probably too late now, anyway.. with David's multiple ref backend
>> work, we could have a third, no-dependency backend. We can use index
>> format to store refs. Then we can avoid case-sensitivity issue with
>> filesystems.
>
> I'd actually vote for a ref backend that is based on a tree object ;-)
>
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/282677

For reasonably small sets of refs I think index beats trees (remember we have cache-tree, which basically gives us the tree behind the scene), but when you have so many refs, hierarchical storage may be more efficient. Either way it's nice to see a builtin, no dependency backend besides "files".

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Duy