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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] git-note: A mechanisim for providing free-form after-the-fact annotations on commits
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:58:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705280957070.26602@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705281840.50814.johan@herland.net>



On Mon, 28 May 2007, Johan Herland wrote:
> 
> I still don't see what makes note objects inherently more expensive than
> commit objects. Except for the refs, of course, but we're getting rid
> of those (at least replacing them with a more efficient reverse mapping).

It's exactly the refs that I worry about.

Anything that needs to read in all notes at startup is going to be _slow_.

In contrast, commits we read when (and only when) we need them.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-28 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-09 19:20 [RFC] Second parent for reverts Daniel Barkalow
2007-05-09 20:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-09 20:22   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-09 22:26     ` Johan Herland
2007-05-09 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 22:16   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10 16:35     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10 18:06       ` Johan Herland
2007-05-10 18:22         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-27 14:08           ` [PATCH 00/15] git-note: A mechanisim for providing free-form after-the-fact annotations on commits Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:09             ` [PATCH 01/15] git-note: Add git-note command for adding/listing/deleting git notes Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:10             ` [PATCH 02/15] git-note: (Documentation) Add git-note manual page Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:11             ` [PATCH 03/15] git-note: (Administrivia) Add git-note to Makefile, .gitignore, etc Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:11             ` [PATCH 04/15] git-note: (Plumbing) Add plumbing-level support for git notes Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:12             ` [PATCH 05/15] git-note: (Plumbing) Add support for git notes to git-rev-parse and git-show-ref Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:13             ` [PATCH 06/15] git-note: (Documentation) Explain the new '--notes' option " Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:13             ` [PATCH 07/15] git-note: (Almost plumbing) Add support for git notes to git-pack-refs and git-fsck Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:14             ` [PATCH 08/15] git-note: (Decorations) Add note decorations to "git-{log,show,whatchanged} --decorate" Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:14             ` [PATCH 09/15] git-note: (Documentation) Explain new behaviour of --decorate in git-{log,show,whatchanged} Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:15             ` [PATCH 10/15] git-note: (Transfer) Teach git-clone how to clone notes Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:15             ` [PATCH 11/15] git-note: (Transfer) Teach git-fetch to auto-follow notes Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:15             ` [PATCH 12/15] git-note: (Transfer) Teach git-push to push notes when --all or --notes is given Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:16             ` [PATCH 13/15] git-note: (Documentation) Explain the new --notes option to git-push Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:16             ` [PATCH 14/15] git-note: (Tests) Add tests for git-note and associated functionality Johan Herland
2007-05-27 14:17             ` [PATCH 15/15] git-note: Add display of notes to gitk Johan Herland
2007-05-27 20:09             ` [PATCH 00/15] git-note: A mechanisim for providing free-form after-the-fact annotations on commits Junio C Hamano
2007-05-28  0:29               ` Johan Herland
2007-05-28  0:59               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-28  4:37             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-28 10:54               ` Johan Herland
2007-05-28 16:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-28 16:40                   ` Johan Herland
2007-05-28 16:58                     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-05-28 17:48                       ` Johan Herland
2007-05-28 20:45                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-28 21:35                           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-28 23:37                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-29  3:12                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-29  3:22                               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-29  7:04                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-29 11:04                               ` Andy Parkins
2007-05-29 11:12                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-29  7:06                           ` Johan Herland
2007-05-29  8:22                             ` Jeff King
2007-05-29  9:23                               ` Johan Herland
2007-05-28 20:45                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-28 21:19                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-28 23:46                   ` [PATCH] Add fsck_verify_ref_to_tag_object() to verify that refname matches name stored in tag object Johan Herland
2007-05-28 17:29               ` [PATCH 00/15] git-note: A mechanisim for providing free-form after-the-fact annotations on commits Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-05-28 17:42                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-05-28 17:58                   ` Johan Herland
2007-05-10 22:33       ` [RFC] Second parent for reverts Martin Langhoff
2007-05-10  1:43   ` Junio C Hamano

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