From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Git commit generation numbers
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:46:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110714194638.GE8453@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzvib7QF-J3fBj2brcQifXGqoeK1t7vfx6pcJmJAEO0dw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:55:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Also, I suspect that the cache could easily be done as a *small* and
> > *incomplete* cache, ie you don't need to cache all commits, it would
> > be sufficient to cache a few hundred spread-out commits, and just know
> > that "from any commit, the cached commit will be quickly reachable".
>
> Put another way: we could do the cache not as a real dynamic entity,
> but as something that gets generated at "git clone" time or when
> re-packing.
Would it be considered evil if we put the generation number in the
pack, but not consider it part of the formal object (i.e., it would be
just a cache, but one that wouldn't change once the pack was created)?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 18:24 Git commit generation numbers Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14 18:37 ` Jeff King
2011-07-14 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14 19:12 ` Jeff King
2011-07-14 19:46 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-07-14 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14 20:07 ` Jeff King
2011-07-14 20:08 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-07-14 19:08 ` Jeff King
2011-07-14 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14 20:01 ` Jeff King
2011-07-14 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14 20:31 ` Jeff King
2011-07-15 1:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-15 2:41 ` Geert Bosch
2011-07-15 7:46 ` Jeff King
2011-07-15 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-15 16:18 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-07-15 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-15 18:42 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-07-15 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-16 9:16 ` Christian Couder
2011-07-18 3:41 ` Jeff King
2011-07-19 4:14 ` Christian Couder
2011-07-19 20:00 ` Jeff King
2011-07-21 6:29 ` Christian Couder
2011-07-15 18:46 ` Tony Luck
2011-07-15 18:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-15 19:48 ` Jeff King
2011-07-15 20:07 ` Jeff King
2011-07-15 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-15 21:54 ` Jeff King
2011-07-15 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-15 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-15 23:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-16 0:42 ` Jeff King
2011-07-16 0:40 ` Jeff King
2011-07-15 9:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-15 9:17 ` Long, Martin
2011-07-15 15:33 ` Long, Martin
2011-07-15 16:15 ` Drew Northup
2011-07-14 18:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14 19:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-14 20:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-14 20:41 ` Jeff King
2011-07-14 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-17 18:27 George Spelvin
2011-07-17 19:00 ` Long, Martin
2011-07-17 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-17 23:39 ` George Spelvin
2011-07-17 23:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-18 5:13 ` George Spelvin
2011-07-18 10:28 ` Anthony Van de Gejuchte
2011-07-18 11:48 ` George Spelvin
2011-07-20 20:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-20 22:16 ` George Spelvin
2011-07-20 23:26 ` david
2011-07-20 23:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-21 0:08 ` Phil Hord
2011-07-21 0:18 ` david
2011-07-21 0:37 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-07-21 0:47 ` Phil Hord
2011-07-21 4:26 ` david
2011-07-21 12:43 ` George Spelvin
2011-07-21 19:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-21 20:27 ` George Spelvin
2011-07-21 20:33 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-07-22 12:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-22 13:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-22 18:02 ` david
2011-07-22 18:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-22 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-22 22:02 ` Jeff King
2011-07-28 15:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-09-06 10:02 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-22 19:08 ` david
2011-07-22 19:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-22 18:02 ` david
2011-07-21 0:39 ` Phil Hord
2011-07-21 0:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-21 1:09 ` Phil Hord
2011-07-21 12:03 ` Drew Northup
2011-07-21 12:55 ` George Spelvin
2011-07-21 15:57 ` Drew Northup
2011-07-21 16:24 ` Phil Hord
2011-07-21 22:40 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2011-07-22 9:30 ` Christian Couder
2011-07-21 17:36 ` George Spelvin
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