From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I have this, pretty please?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:28:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910708121228v2fa8d356ld93efa7d1d5effd6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708121140190.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On 8/12/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> IOW, showing the whole history for a big project is simply pretty
> expensive. If you have a hundred thousand commits, just keeping track of
> the tree structure *is* going to take megabytes and megabytes of data.
> Limiting the size of the problem is usually a really good solution,
> especially since most people tend to care about what happened in the last
> few days, not what happened five months ago.
Could the topological graph for a packfile be computed at pack time
and stored in the packfile so that gitk doesn't have to keep
recomputing it? Does it work to merge multiple precomputed graphs
retrieved from the pack files?
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 13:23 Can I have this, pretty please? David Kastrup
2007-08-12 14:21 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-12 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:28 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2007-08-12 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:51 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-08-12 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 20:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-13 0:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-13 5:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 19:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-12 20:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:58 ` Govind Salinas
2007-08-12 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 22:17 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-08-12 22:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 20:02 ` Jeff King
2007-08-12 20:09 ` Jeff King
2007-08-12 21:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-12 23:10 ` Jeff King
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