On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Probably too late now, anyway.. with David's multiple ref backend >> work, we could have a third, no-dependency backend. We can use index >> format to store refs. Then we can avoid case-sensitivity issue with >> filesystems. > > I'd actually vote for a ref backend that is based on a tree object ;-) > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/282677 For reasonably small sets of refs I think index beats trees (remember we have cache-tree, which basically gives us the tree behind the scene), but when you have so many refs, hierarchical storage may be more efficient. Either way it's nice to see a builtin, no dependency backend besides "files". -- Duy -- 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