Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format - Progress Report week 8

[Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>]

Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:

> == Outlook for the next week ==
>
> - Continue implementing the API as discussed on [5].
>
> [5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198283/focus=198474

Sorry for being rather slow this week!  I still intend to do another
review of the github code RSN, however I felt I should point out some
more IRC conclusions to the list.

I talked Thomas out of going forward with the API as the next step, and
instead work towards having a writer side for the current format.

This should have some benefits:

* The code becomes more easily testable, and hopefully able to run the
  test suite.

* Spelling the writer in code should shake down any unforeseen
  deficiencies of the format.

  Until update-index or similar learn to use the partial writing
  facilities, we should have a little extra tool here that allows poking
  at a single entry for testing.

* The API will need to have an updating and a writing side, and what
  that should look like will become clearer.

That does mean that the API-demo in git-ls-files (suggested by Duy) will
likely have to wait until after midterms.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch