On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > > Well, we could always add it as a local (per repository) "cache". > > > With only generation numbers we could use pack-index-like format > > > to store a mapping "commit sha-1 => generation number", just like > > > now pack index stores mapping "object sha-1 => offset in pack". > > > > Yes, and even embedding this in the pack-file (or perhaps, the index, as a > > new index extension) is probably a good idea. > > Errr... index is per workarea (per checkout), and this information > is per repository, so IMHO storing this info in an index (dircache) > is a layering violation. Unless you were talking about pack-file-index. The pack index isn't a good idea since one pack doesn't necessarily cover the whole of the repository. A separate new file is the only sensible thing to do, if done at all. Nicolas - 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
