Re: [PATCH v1 00/19] Add configuration options for split-index

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Goal
>> ~~~~
>>
>> We want to make it possible to use the split-index feature
>> automatically by just setting a new "core.splitIndex" configuration
>> variable to true.
>
> Thanks. This definitely should help make split index a lot more
> convenient for day-to-day use. The series looks ok (well, except the
> pruning logic being discussed elsewhere in this thread, but I still
> think it's a good strategy).

Thanks for your review.

>> This can be valuable as split-index can help significantly speed up
>> `git rebase` especially along with the work to libify `git apply`
>> that has been recently merged to master
>> (see https://github.com/git/git/commit/81358dc238372793b1590efa149cc1581d1fbd98).
>
> I remember this. Since the apply libification work has landed, we can
> now think about not writing index out after every apply step, which
> gives the same (or more) speed up without the complication of
> split-index. But if split-index is good enough for you, we can leave
> it for another time.

Yeah, I think they are separate things that can be done.
When people do a lot of small rebases for example, then split-index
will speed up all the index writing, including the index writing at
the end of each rebase.