Re: Can I have this, pretty please?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/12/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> IOW, showing the whole history for a big project is simply pretty
>> expensive. If you have a hundred thousand commits, just keeping track of
>> the tree structure *is* going to take megabytes and megabytes of data.
>> Limiting the size of the problem is usually a really good solution,
>> especially since most people tend to care about what happened in the last
>> few days, not what happened five months ago.
>
> Could the topological graph for a packfile be computed at pack time
> and stored in the packfile so that gitk doesn't have to keep
> recomputing it? Does it work to merge multiple precomputed graphs
> retrieved from the pack files?

The parent information basically _is_ a bare-bones specification of
the topological graph.

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