From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:32:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] [RFC] Path-walk API and applications
Message-ID: <xmqq8qvx6fmy.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1786.git.1725935335.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> One obvious issue with this current implementation is that it inlines much
> of the delta calculation into the "Enumerate objects" phase, and thus makes
> it single-threaded.

Naïvely, traversal of history partitioned by paths smells
embarrassingly parallelizable; it may need some post processing to
make sure that the same object only appears once, though, and the
devil probably is in the details ;-).

Thanks for an enjoyable cover letter that pulls readers in.