From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Why so much time in the kernel? Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910606160749t4d7a541ev72a67383e96d86da@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606160825hb538d6fo4c9f1d7d9768e100@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606161000t53328571u10a350eca894ccdc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 16 20:33:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrJ7l-0004cQ-GK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:32:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751335AbWFPScu (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:32:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751338AbWFPScu (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:32:50 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:38281 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751335AbWFPSct (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:32:49 -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 k5GIWigt018644 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:32:45 -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 k5GIWgXB026005; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:32:43 -0700 To: Jon Smirl In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606161000t53328571u10a350eca894ccdc@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.76__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.135 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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