Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add a --nosort option to pack-objects

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:20:59PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > As you can seen from my other message, I'm *actually* not sure this is
> > really material for git as a VCS. I will add documentation unrelated to
> > --nosort to pack-objects anyways.
> 
> Well, I have serious doubts about this patch in the first place.
> 
> I think it is simply unneeded.
> 
> If you want pack-objects not to change the sort order because you have 
> some sorting of your own, externally implemented, then you simply have 
> to run git-pack-objects feeding it the list of object SHA1s along with a 
> tag of your own which will effectively impose the sorting you want, 
> based on that tag.
> 
> Objects with the same tag will still be sorted amongst themselves which 
> is still a good thing.
> 
> for example, you may have something like:
> 
> 	git rev-list --all --objects |
> 	sed -e 's|foo/logs/.*|LOGS|' |
> 	git pack-objects ...
> 
> This will effectively cluster all foo/logs/* files together for delta 
> compression regardless of their actual name.  Maybe that's what you 
> really want?

I've been thinking about this, but I'm not sure the list won't be
mixed up with the rest of the sort... I'll just try to see what the
sorted list look like...

Mike