Re: [PATCH 0/6] PATH WALK I: The path-walk API

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2024, 13:20 UTC
Message-ID: <db91e3ec-9c08-453f-bf76-4aa131f8b798@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo72miim6.fsf@gitster.g>

On 11/10/24 9:56 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

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>> The --path-walk approach does not suffer from this problem because
>> it has a second pass that sorts by the name hash and looks for
>> better deltas than the ones that already exist. Thus, it gets the
>> best of both worlds.
> 
> Yes, at the cost of being more complex :-)

True. I hope that the results sufficiently justify the complexity. Further, the later uses of the path-walk API (git backfill and git survey) build upon this up-front investment.

Thanks, -Stolee

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