From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:16:43 GMT Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050418003526.GD1461@pasky.ji.cz> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:06:43AM CEST, I got a letter > where David Woodhouse 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