Re: Handling large files with GIT

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2006, 22:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602141357300.3691@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <43F249F7.5060008@vilain.net>

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Sam Vilain wrote:

> 
> This seems to me to be another use case where git could gain orders of
> magnitude speed improvement by either explicit ("forensic") history
> objects, or a history analysis cache.

Well, the thing is, it could get that _without_ any cache too.

The problem really isn't that we couldn't make things faster, the problem is that at least for _me_ the thing is fast enough.

If somebody is interested in making the "lots of filename changes" case go fast, I'd be more than happy to walk them through what they'd need to change. I'm just not horribly motivated to do it myself. Hint, hint.

			Linus