From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why so much time in the kernel?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:32:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606161132160.5498@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606161000t53328571u10a350eca894ccdc@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> Is it a crazy idea to read the cvs files, compute an sha1 on each
> expanded delta and then write the delta straight into a pack file? Are
> the cvs and git delta formats the same? What about CVS's forward and
> reverse delta use? While this is going on, track the
> branches/changsets in memory and then finish up by writing these trees
> into the pack file too. This should take no more ram than cvsps needs
> currently.
What you want is parsecvs, which does it much more like that.
Linus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-16 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-16 14:49 Why so much time in the kernel? Jon Smirl
2006-06-16 15:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-16 15:25 ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-16 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-16 17:00 ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-16 17:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-16 17:29 ` Keith Packard
2006-06-16 17:44 ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-16 18:02 ` Keith Packard
2006-06-16 18:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-06-16 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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