Re: [PATCH 0/3] fast textconv

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:17:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> If I understand you right, you are proposing a separate program
> that you would pass as a fasttextconv helper, and that would look in a
> notes tree. So you would still have a per-diff fork/exec, and pipe all
> the data.
> 
> I was thinking of actually doing it in-core, so cache hits would be as
> lightweight as a notes lookup (and cache misses obviously would still
> fork/exec a helper, but we don't care too much since the helper's time
> to convert will dominate in that path).

Side note: I think I might prototype it as a separate program and see
what kind of speed I can get.

> > Pruning the cache is done be deleting the refs/notes/bikeshed ref,
> > truncating it by truncating it's DAG (filter-branch...).
> 
> Yeah, that would work. It just means it's one more thing the user has to
> deal with. I didn't want to have to introduce a "git textconv"
> management helper. ;)

Other side note: it's not even that it's that hard to prune. It's that
you might tweak your config, and then you have to _remember_ to prune.

-Peff