On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:37:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Has anyone looked seriously at a new index format that stores the > redundant information in a more easily accessible way? It would increase > our disk usage, but for something like linux-2.6, only by 10MB per > 32-bit word. On most of my systems I would gladly spare some extra RAM > for the disk cache if it meant I could avoid inflating a bunch of > objects. Actually, that is an over-statement of the size. That would be a per-object piece of metadata. A per-commit piece like timestamp would be only 1M per 32-bit word in linux-2.6 (about 1/4 million commits). Or put another way, we could store timestamps and 20-byte parent sha1s in about 11M. -Peff -- 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