Re: full kernel history, in patchset format
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Apr 18, 2005, 01:16 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504171816040.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>
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- <20050418003526.GD1461@pasky.ji.cz>
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:06:43AM CEST, I got a letter > where David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> told me that... > > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 01:39 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > Of course an entirely different thing are _trees_ associated with those > > > commits. As long as you stay with a simple three-way merge, you > > > basically never want to look at trees which aren't heads and which you > > > don't specifically request to look at. And the trees and what they carry > > > inside is the main bulk of data. > > > > If the trees are absent and you're trying to merge, what do you gain > > from having the commit objects? > > merge-base
Alternatively, you can have just the rev-tree cache of them. That's what it was designed for (along with avoiding to have to read 60,000 commits).
Linus