On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:55:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Also, I suspect that the cache could easily be done as a *small* and
> > *incomplete* cache, ie you don't need to cache all commits, it would
> > be sufficient to cache a few hundred spread-out commits, and just know
> > that "from any commit, the cached commit will be quickly reachable".
>
> Put another way: we could do the cache not as a real dynamic entity,
> but as something that gets generated at "git clone" time or when
> re-packing.
Would it be considered evil if we put the generation number in the
pack, but not consider it part of the formal object (i.e., it would be
just a cache, but one that wouldn't change once the pack was created)?
- Ted
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