From: Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, jrnieder@gmail.com,
Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Tweaked notes on gfb<->bfg differences
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:25:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1387376716-72615-1-git-send-email-roberto.tyley@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr49ak8fi.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On 18 December 2013 05:57, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The first bullet point may be somewhat misleading, though. Nothing
> stops your script you use in filter-branch from processing blobs
> belonging to a single tree in parallel---the user just needs to do a
> bit more work to do so.
Thanks, I've moved this entry down and clarified the capabilities -
I think there's quite a big difference to the user (of a multi-core
machine) as to whether parallelism happens by default, or whether they
have to work out how to introduce it into the operation they're trying
to perform.
> I think the second point is the most characteristic in BFG (and that
> is what allows easy parallelization of the filtering). Also, it
> cannot be stressed enough that the "removing unwanted contents" use
> case can take advantage of the "bad contents in a blob is bad, no
> matter where in the tree and when in the history the blob appears".
> That is what makes BFG particularly shine for the use case. Its
> design very much aligns the objective the use case wants to achieve.
I've moved this up to the first bullet-point and added text emphasising
the significance the constraint plays in making the BFG work quickly
while satisfying the common use-case.
Roberto Tyley (1):
docs: add filter-branch notes on The BFG
Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47)
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-17 10:53 [PATCH] docs: add filter-branch note about The BFG Roberto Tyley
2013-12-17 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-18 1:04 ` Roberto Tyley
2013-12-18 5:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-18 14:25 ` Roberto Tyley [this message]
2013-12-18 14:25 ` [PATCH v2] docs: add filter-branch notes on " Roberto Tyley
2013-12-17 18:40 ` [PATCH] docs: add filter-branch note about " Jonathan Nieder
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