On 12/12/10 19:14, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
That's good to hear. What should be the syntax for asking fast-import not to write to a ref? Something like this? commit mark :1 committer c o mitter<committer@xxxxxxxxxxx> now data<<END ... Writing the sha1 as each commit is written: how early does the frontend need access to the sha1? Would a facility to report marks back to the frontend at the end of the stream take care of it?
What happened to --report-fd ?
(In the back of my mind, I have the idea of using a file that allows O(1) access, perhaps of the form <commit name for rev 1> NL <commit name for rev 2> NL ...
This doesn't scale to many branches; git-svn started with that and had to use a b-tree in the end. Eg, consider a repository with 10,000 branches and 600,000 revisions.
Thanks for continuing this work, it is most interesting to follow. Cheers, Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html