From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:47:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 08/12] Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908271243120.7562@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <200908271135.31794.johan@herland.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Johan Herland wrote:

> On Thursday 27 August 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Somebody up in the project is supposed to decide what fan-out is to be 
> > used for the whole project and everybody should follow that structure?
> 
> Nope, the code should decide which fanout scheme to use.

I half-agree, the code should decide which fanout scheme to use, but 
_only_ when producing new notes.

I imagine that it could merge the existing notes, and try to make sure 
that there are no more blobs in a given subtree than a certain threshold; 
if that threshold is reached, it could fan-out using 2-digit subtrees, 
merging what needs merging (by concatenation) along the way.

The natural precedence of shallower paths/longer basenames should cope 
well with that (i.e. prefer to show abcd/... over ab/cd/...).

Ciao,
Dscho