Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2016, #01; Mon, 3)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> * lt/abbrev-auto (2016-10-03) 3 commits
>
> I kind of expected this one to cook in next for a bit while people
> decided whether the larger hashes were irritating or not. Despite
> working on the implementation, I'm on the fence myself.
>
> I'd kind of hoped people would play with core.disambiguate and the hints
> and see if they still actually wanted to bump the default abbrev (and
> how aggressively to do so; if core.disambiguate means most of the
> ambiguity is just between commits, that cuts the number of
> collision-interesting objects by an order of magnitude).

Sure.  Let's keep them cooking.

>> * jk/pack-objects-optim-mru (2016-08-11) 4 commits
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2016-09-21 at 97b919bdbd)
>>  + pack-objects: use mru list when iterating over packs
>>  + pack-objects: break delta cycles before delta-search phase
>>  + sha1_file: make packed_object_info public
>>  + provide an initializer for "struct object_info"
>> 
>>  Originally merged to 'next' on 2016-08-11
>> 
>>  "git pack-objects" in a repository with many packfiles used to
>>  spend a lot of time looking for/at objects in them; the accesses to
>>  the packfiles are now optimized by checking the most-recently-used
>>  packfile first.
>> 
>>  Will hold to see if people scream.
>
> This has been in next for 6 weeks. Is it time to consider graduating it?

Perhaps.