Re: GSoC proposal: port pack bitmap support to libgit2.

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Hi,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm Yuxuan Shui, a undergraduate student from China. I'm applying for
> GSoC 2014, and here is my proposal:
>
> I found this idea on the ideas page, and did some research about it.
> The pack bitmap patchset add a new .bitmap file for every pack file
> which contains the reachability information of selected commits. This
> information is used to speed up git fetching and cloning, and produce
> a very convincing results.
>
> The goal of my project is to port the pack bitmap implementation in
> core git to libgit2, so users of libgit2 could benefit from this
> optimization as well.
>
> Please let me know if my proposal makes sense, thanks.
>
> P.S. I've submitted by microproject patch[1], but haven't received any
> response yet.
>
> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/243854
>
> --
> Regards
> Yuxuan Shui

Could anyone please review my proposal a little bit? Is this project
helpful and worth doing? Did I get anything wrong in my proposal?

Thanks.

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Regards
Yuxuan Shui
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