From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 23:22:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: secondary index by path fragment
Message-ID: <xmqqttjawmos.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20240506T225759-090424131Z@orbis-terrarum.net>

"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> writes:

> 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?