Re: Subprojects tasks

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:32:36AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I suspect the hardest part is "rev-list --objects" (now most of
>> it is found in revision.c).  [..]  But I think the updated
>> code needs to know that "link" needs to be unwrapped and
>> contained "commit" needs to be injected back to the ancestry
>> walking machinery.
>
> Do we want "link" to be unwrapped, though ?
>
>> Once you have "rev-list --objects", you should be able to drive
>> pack-objects with its output.
>
> Wouldn't we then run into the scalability problems Linus was
> concerned about ?

Hmph.

If the plumbing layer does not have to (although I haven't
thought it through, it does feel like it even shouldn't) unwrap
"link" and let the Porcelain layer to deal with it, that would
certainly make rev-list/revision.c part simpler.

I like it.