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Re: [PATCH] git exproll: steps to tackle gc aggression

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 7, 2013, 04:43 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Imagine we have a cheap way to enumerate the young objects without
> the usual history traversal.

Before we discuss the advantages, can you outline how we can possibly get this data without actually walking downwards from the roots (refs)? One way to do it is to pull data out of a log of ref updates (aka. reflog), but we both know how unreliable that can be.

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