From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress report Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 11:33:59 -0700 Message-ID: <7vzk8q4z1k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20120523122135.GA58204@tgummerer.unibz.it> <20120525201547.GB86874@tgummerer> <20120527090407.GD86874@tgummerer> <7vbolaotwj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87vcjfi09m.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Gummerer , , , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 29 20:34:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SZRFM-0006nk-6D for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 20:34:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754986Ab2E2SeE (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2012 14:34:04 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:43202 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754681Ab2E2SeD (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2012 14:34:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A3F68EA0; Tue, 29 May 2012 14:34:02 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=8tJTkzUn2or3KzGRYLr1KfkU4Jo=; b=wkJ4XW vBMhoIbDJ0jSKAeEyCgEDbRxKTzsbSjnmNumCo1US4BtNkWNjsWC6yU4v75ypTzM cTBMpP4MTsMyATr9uWwZM+RCRfjYOw6ME6/hqKjlePItk01L4F3X8ugBVJmB6R+V ngdaf+FDUjOdMl+1y4Uu934zyrlwsMwyL/zTU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=dSQSa5ymtizYc92oesR71468BiOKOC2z Ya0vGFjD8+LbtbvoI3phM35GtGdeDmFvR7Ij3/0SVS8bxcYHAfDDCImEtpft+EhL ONC+y76x4zUnp+o78gqPYqE+VFIIgeoSlXbUEdA1Tp6wsNUKTVg+iIPxdzcRo84y rM6yp5tz7V0= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25FA8E9E; Tue, 29 May 2012 14:34:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2FC0E8E9B; Tue, 29 May 2012 14:34:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87vcjfi09m.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Tue, 29 May 2012 15:29:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: DC41D842-A9BC-11E1-9DF8-FC762E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Rast writes: > Then I will twist Duy's words to mean that you should make git-ls-files > the poster child of this new API for development and profiling purposes > :-) Exactly. > Actually converting the rest of the git code base to such an API is too > big an undertaking for the summer, so please don't stray on that path. Didn't I say that this topic is too big for a GSoC task _way_ before GSoC organization application started? Without meaningful portion of the codebase using the newly proposed data stracture and giving demonstratably better performance figure, it is very hard to justify that the project completed successfully at the end of the summer.