From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20050416131528.GB19908@elte.hu> <1113780698.11910.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050417233936.GV1461@pasky.ji.cz> <1113782805.11910.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050418003526.GD1461@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Woodhouse , Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 03:11:20 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNKn5-0004Ff-IM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 03:11:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261476AbVDRBO6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:14:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261493AbVDRBO6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:14:58 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:42699 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261476AbVDRBO4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:14:56 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3I1Eks4002594 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:14:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3I1Ejw5016319; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:14:45 -0700 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050418003526.GD1461@pasky.ji.cz> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.35__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:06:43AM CEST, I got a letter > where David Woodhouse told me that... > > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 01:39 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > Of course an entirely different thing are _trees_ associated with those > > > commits. As long as you stay with a simple three-way merge, you > > > basically never want to look at trees which aren't heads and which you > > > don't specifically request to look at. And the trees and what they carry > > > inside is the main bulk of data. > > > > If the trees are absent and you're trying to merge, what do you gain > > from having the commit objects? > > merge-base Alternatively, you can have just the rev-tree cache of them. That's what it was designed for (along with avoiding to have to read 60,000 commits). Linus