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Re: Feature request: secondary index by path fragment

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 6, 2024, 23:22 UTC
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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> writes:
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> Gentoo has some tooling that boils down to repeated runs of 'git log -- somepath/'
> via cgit as well as other shell tooling.
> ...
> I was wondering if Git could gain a secondary index of commits, based on
> path prefixes, that would speed up the 'git log' run.
Perhaps the bloom filters are good fit for the use case?
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  3. Patrick SteinhardtMay 7, 2024
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