"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 8/12/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> IOW, showing the whole history for a big project is simply pretty >> expensive. If you have a hundred thousand commits, just keeping track of >> the tree structure *is* going to take megabytes and megabytes of data. >> Limiting the size of the problem is usually a really good solution, >> especially since most people tend to care about what happened in the last >> few days, not what happened five months ago. > > Could the topological graph for a packfile be computed at pack time > and stored in the packfile so that gitk doesn't have to keep > recomputing it? Does it work to merge multiple precomputed graphs > retrieved from the pack files? The parent information basically _is_ a bare-bones specification of the topological graph. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
