From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change softrefs file format from text (82 bytes per entry) to binary (40 bytes per entry)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:03:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706101603.43027.johan@herland.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706100900420.4059@racer.site>
On Sunday 10 June 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Johan Herland wrote:
> > The text-based softrefs file format uses 82 bytes per entry (40 bytes
> > from_sha1 in hex, 1 byte SP, 40 bytes to_sha1 in hex, 1 byte LF).
> >
> > The binary softrefs file format uses 40 bytes per entry (20 bytes
> > from_sha1, 20 bytes to_sha1).
> >
> > Moving to a binary format increases performance slightly, but sacrifices
> > easy readability of the softrefs files.
>
> It is bad style to introduce one type, and then change it to another in a
> backwards-incompatible way. Either you make it backwards compatible, or
> you start with the second format, never even mentioning that you had
> another format.
As Junio correctly pointed out, this patch is only here to demonstrate an
alternative solution. Whether or not this patch should be used should be
determined _long_ before (even thinking about) putting this into a release.
...Johan
--
Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-10 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-04 0:51 Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) Johan Herland
2007-06-04 0:51 ` [PATCH 0/6] Refactor the tag object Johan Herland
2007-06-04 0:52 ` [PATCH 1/6] Refactor git tag objects; make "tag" header optional; introduce new optional "keywords" header Johan Herland
2007-06-04 6:08 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-06-04 7:30 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-04 0:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] git-show: When showing tag objects with no tag name, show tag object's SHA1 instead of an empty string Johan Herland
2007-06-04 0:53 ` [PATCH 3/6] git-fsck: Do thorough verification of tag objects Johan Herland
2007-06-04 5:56 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-06-04 7:51 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-06 7:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-06 8:06 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-06 9:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-06 9:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-06 10:26 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-06 10:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-04 0:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] Documentation/git-mktag: Document the changes in tag object structure Johan Herland
2007-06-04 0:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] git-mktag tests: Fix and expand the mktag tests according to the new " Johan Herland
2007-06-04 0:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] Add fsck_verify_ref_to_tag_object() to verify that refname matches name stored in tag object Johan Herland
2007-06-04 20:32 ` [PATCH 0/6] Refactor the " Junio C Hamano
2007-06-07 22:13 ` [PATCH] Fix bug in tag parsing when thorough verification was in effect Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:19 ` [PATCH 0/7] Introduce soft references (softrefs) Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 1/7] Softrefs: Add softrefs header file with API documentation Johan Herland
2007-06-10 6:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-10 7:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-10 7:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-10 14:00 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-10 14:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-10 14:45 ` [PATCH] Teach git-gc to merge unsorted softrefs Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:22 ` [PATCH 2/7] Softrefs: Add implementation of softrefs API Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:22 ` [PATCH 3/7] Softrefs: Add git-softref, a builtin command for adding, listing and administering softrefs Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:23 ` [PATCH 4/7] Softrefs: Add manual page documenting git-softref and softrefs subsystem in general Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:23 ` [PATCH 5/7] Softrefs: Add testcases for basic softrefs behaviour Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] Softrefs: Administrivia associated with softrefs subsystem and git-softref builtin Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] Teach git-mktag to register softrefs for all tag objects Johan Herland
2007-06-09 18:25 ` [PATCH] Change softrefs file format from text (82 bytes per entry) to binary (40 bytes per entry) Johan Herland
2007-06-10 8:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-10 8:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-10 9:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-10 14:03 ` Johan Herland [this message]
2007-06-09 23:55 ` Comment on weak refs Junio C Hamano
2007-06-10 1:25 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-10 6:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-10 13:41 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-10 14:09 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-06-10 14:25 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-06-10 9:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-06-10 15:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-09 22:57 ` Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) Steven Grimm
2007-06-09 23:16 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-10 8:29 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-06-10 14:31 ` Johan Herland
2007-06-10 19:42 ` Steven Grimm
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