On Sunday 10 June 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Johan Herland wrote: > > The text-based softrefs file format uses 82 bytes per entry (40 bytes > > from_sha1 in hex, 1 byte SP, 40 bytes to_sha1 in hex, 1 byte LF). > > > > The binary softrefs file format uses 40 bytes per entry (20 bytes > > from_sha1, 20 bytes to_sha1). > > > > Moving to a binary format increases performance slightly, but sacrifices > > easy readability of the softrefs files. > > It is bad style to introduce one type, and then change it to another in a > backwards-incompatible way. Either you make it backwards compatible, or > you start with the second format, never even mentioning that you had > another format. As Junio correctly pointed out, this patch is only here to demonstrate an alternative solution. Whether or not this patch should be used should be determined _long_ before (even thinking about) putting this into a release. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net - 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
