From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: [PATCH] Additional merge-base tests Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:28:25 -0700 Message-ID: <44ABCC89.2090003@gmail.com> References: <44A9E6AE.10508@gmail.com> <7v8xn9gjh5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200607051039.53288.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 05 16:28:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fy8Mj-0001AM-2I for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:28:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964853AbWGEO2a (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:28:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964882AbWGEO2a (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:28:30 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:49670 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964853AbWGEO23 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:28:29 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so931059wra for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:28:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YnFRS89Uu1faVD4ZJJRE8V26dgRBWES3WEd2msjyghSxhUZcXiNX75hcN3PB30kf87DG/ZjGB+yHSm2l7sbVySe1N9TwAE/iUB9yONyY2Tqs6vMzYqwIbWYBdD2JTr+csTtcfnslv73FIACdeDAd16HKcR+VaBcm08DPUYjp0As= Received: by 10.65.191.7 with SMTP id t7mr5242972qbp; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? ( [69.160.147.208]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id p4sm2228191qba.2006.07.05.07.28.27; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:28:28 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060411) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Josef Weidendorfer , git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200607051039.53288.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Josef Weidendorfer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 23:15, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin writes: >> >>> We could introduce a time.maximumSkew variable, and just walk only >>> that much further when traversing the commits. >> We could have had "commit generation number" in the commit >> object header, and use that instead of commit timestamps for >> these traversal purposes. > > Isn't this "commit generation number" information that can be > regenerated on the fly, i.e. a perfect fit for data to be stored > in a persistant cache, e.g. in ".git/tmp/virtual-commit-timestamps"? Yes