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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: secondary index by path fragment
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 16:22:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqttjawmos.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <robbat2-20240506T225759-090424131Z@orbis-terrarum.net> (Robin H. Johnson's message of "Mon, 6 May 2024 23:11:37 +0000")

"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?

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-06 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-06 23:11 Feature request: secondary index by path fragment Robin H. Johnson
2024-05-06 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-05-07  4:25   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-05-07  5:38     ` Robin H. Johnson

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