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Re: GitTogether topics status (4th of October)

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Oct 7, 2008, 03:46 UTC
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:
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>   2. What needs refactoring?
> 
>      I occasionally run up against parts of the code that just make my
>      eyes bleed everytime I touch them. I think we've made significant
>      progress in maintanability and bug-avoidance with things like the
>      strbuf library, refactoring of remote and transport handling, etc.
>      What areas might still benefit from such refactoring?

Tree object walking and commit object parsing. This is what's holding pack v4 performances back. But I think that Shawn will cover this already (I won't be there but I sent my thoughts about this to him).

Nicolas
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Message 3 of 6 in “GitTogether topics status (4th of October)”
  1. Christian CouderOct 4, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 7, 2008
  3. Nicolas PitreOct 7, 2008
  4. Shawn O. PearceOct 7, 2008
  5. Shawn O. PearceOct 7, 2008
  6. René ScharfeOct 17, 2008

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