Re: [PATCH 08/17] pack-objects: add --path-walk option

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2024, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID: <ZyFet+Gamc8g7Hg6@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <20241029213657.1303762-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 02:36:57PM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote:

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> By incompatibility, do you mean the incompatibility between bitmaps
> and the overall --path-walk feature as implemented collectively by the
> patches in Stolee's patch set? If so, I suspect that we will need a
> parallel code path that takes in the "want" and "uninteresting" commits
> and emits the list of objects (possibly before sorting the objects by
> path hash), much like in builtin/pack-objects.c, so I think there will
> be some effort involved in making the two work together.

I am not sure yet, in all honesty, because I haven't had enough time to spend yet reviewing these patches to have anything intelligent to say.

Thanks, Taylor

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