Re: Submodule object store

[Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>]

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hoi :)

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:20:34PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> >I want to be able to list all objects which are not reachable in the
> >object store, without traversing all submodules at the same time.
> >The only way I can think of to achieve this is to have one separate
> >object store per submodule and then do the traversal per submodule.
> 
> why do you want to optimize for the relativly rare fsck function rather 
> then the more common read functions (which would benifit from shareing 
> object that are identical between projects)?

Because I don't know how to make it _possible_ for large repositories
otherwise.  Consider a Linux-distribution which handles each package
as one submodule.

I don't think that it's too much balanced towards fsck.
The separated object store also helps reduce the memory requirement for
large pushs/pulls.
Sharing objects can be achieved by alternates if you want.
If someone comes up with a nice way to handle everything in one big
object store I would happily use that! :-)

-- 
Martin Waitz

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