From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:48:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606011643290.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606011521n106f8f24s6c7053ce51e3791e@mail.gmail.com>



On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> I've been working on importing the Mozilla CVS into git for the last
> few days. I've fixed up parsecvs so that it can parse the entire
> repository without errors. Now I'm running into problems because there
> are over 300 branches.
> 
> I just run into a problem with git show-branch. Mozilla CVS has a lot
> more than 29 refs, is this something that can be expanded?

Hmm.. Any reason you care about "show-branch --all" in particular?

The algorithm used for show-branch really doesn't scale well, it needs one 
bit per commit per branch, and I didn't realize anybody could ever really 
care.

		Linus