Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2016, #06; Sun, 14)

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2016, 10:49 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BYk1t5cfN_dgc8o3HCi8Rqz9aM_5XFWMUkMTKXu2R7=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvkfj7dz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> * dt/index-helper (2016-07-06) 21 commits
>
>  A new "index-helper" daemon has been introduced to give newly
>  spawned Git process a quicker access to the data in the index, and
>  optionally interface with the watchman daemon to further reduce the
>  refresh cost.
>
>  Not quite ready yet, it seems.
>  cf. <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607061016330.6426@virtualbox>
>  cf. <CACsJy8AiER_=5aJ65r+GPCE_nXbrPTAMKJi=FuJgT8zzV2-NFw@mail.gmail.com>

David I can take back this series if you are busy or no longer interested in it.

If so, Junio, since I may try some slightly different direction first, it may take a while before I resubmit, feel free to drop it if it adds work to you.

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> * nd/shallow-deepen (2016-06-13) 27 commits
>
>  The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use
>  correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone
>  deeper.  A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this
>  easier to use.  "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>"
>  and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify
>  "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and
>  "Give me only the history since that version".
>
>  Needs review.
>
>  Rerolled.  What this topic attempts to achieve is worthwhile, I
>  would think.

I guess I can't do anything to help speed this up?

-- 
Duy