Re: GSoC proposal: port pack bitmap support to libgit2.

From: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2014, 17:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGqt0zy=av=V--REMz2Q1VRZW9mU5Ng=NN=TAAZiUbzskUZbgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGqt0zz1W1k92B+XRWEmMEv1=iyej+zi9QUCp2EhA=g+VnCt0g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm Yuxuan Shui, a undergraduate student from China. I'm applying for
> GSoC 2014, and here is my proposal:
>
> I found this idea on the ideas page, and did some research about it.
> The pack bitmap patchset add a new .bitmap file for every pack file
> which contains the reachability information of selected commits. This
> information is used to speed up git fetching and cloning, and produce
> a very convincing results.
>
> The goal of my project is to port the pack bitmap implementation in
> core git to libgit2, so users of libgit2 could benefit from this
> optimization as well.
>
> Please let me know if my proposal makes sense, thanks.
>
> P.S. I've submitted by microproject patch[1], but haven't received any
> response yet.
>
> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/243854
>
> --
> Regards
> Yuxuan Shui

Could anyone please review my proposal a little bit? Is this project helpful and worth doing? Did I get anything wrong in my proposal?

Thanks.

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Regards
Yuxuan Shui