From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: Can I have this, pretty please? Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:28:18 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910708121228v2fa8d356ld93efa7d1d5effd6@mail.gmail.com> References: <85ir7kq42k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David Kastrup" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Linus Torvalds" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 12 21:28:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKJ6u-0003Wi-3L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:28:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935695AbXHLT2U (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:28:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935565AbXHLT2U (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:28:20 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:49742 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934411AbXHLT2T (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:28:19 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1601047wah for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:28:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Gb7JDRTvmPOSa2lVOinISI+VZY0bq2XrMXbrf4KnQPC3dKQAo+QoCQLj6jwzsCYBPHQYjMDfGoqsXT9/RX2pf1XTkX5vbddWK6wGG022uQLUHPsi3G/eHvOeovTYjFRjdoEuNOUikerXLZTigMs0DguIen847hapDtpDdGHwGbQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=goEE4T9P+09hx8ROuUz5QK8cBHY6B5zTCYrGPn2sCA7CpB2GuuO9QwUBQ8Cit+vT7xN3nJ/RBxF5uQ7BIaGIg1SyT5h74GLOUjA2I2Q2sAh4JXhSHHzYKVWGAn8yJgT6qyH77ax0xzpcuHsIoCL7w3cua2/fychhMn5ZUp5L9OM= Received: by 10.114.67.2 with SMTP id p2mr2550774waa.1186946898900; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.195.11 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:28:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 8/12/07, Linus Torvalds 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