From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:32:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Why so much time in the kernel?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606161132160.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606161000t53328571u10a350eca894ccdc@mail.gmail.com>



On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> Is it a crazy idea to read the cvs files, compute an sha1 on each
> expanded delta and then write the delta straight into a pack file? Are
> the cvs and git delta formats the same? What about CVS's forward and
> reverse delta use? While this is going on, track the
> branches/changsets in memory and then finish up by writing these trees
> into the pack file too. This should take no more ram than cvsps needs
> currently.

What you want is parsecvs, which does it much more like that.

		Linus