On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:39 PM, A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/11/2012 12:16 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> And how do you propose to find the commit commands without parsing all >> the other commands? If you randomly look for lines that begin with >> 'commit /refs' you might end up in the middle of a commit message or >> the contents of a file. > > I didn't say you didn't have to parse the protocol. I said that the protocol > is pretty simple. Parsing is never simple. >>> I agree that an additional filter _may_ decrease performance somewhat if >>> you >>> are already CPU constrained. But I suspect that the effect would be >>> negligible compared to the all of the SHA-1 calculations. >> >> Well. If it's so easy surely you can write one quickly, and I can measure >> it. > > Not my itch; You care, you do it. It was your idea, I don't care. If it's so simple, why don't you do it? Because it's not that simple. And anyway it will have a performance penalty. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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