From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Tan" <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Subject: Re: Implementing reftable in Git
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 10:52:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <059b8daf-c990-aad5-90a4-5ec38c42b7b3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0PPZSjBnxCA7ez91vBuatcHKQ+JUWvTD1iHcXzPBjPBg@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/9/2018 10:33 AM, Christian Couder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I might start working on implementing reftable in Git soon.
>
> During the last Git Merge conference last March Stefan talked about
> reftable. In Alex Vandiver's notes [1] it is asked that people
> announce it on the list when they start working on it, and it appears
> that there is a reference implementation in JGit.
Thanks for starting on this! In addition to the performance gains, this
will help a lot of users with case-insensitive file systems from getting
case-errors on refnames.
> Looking it up, there is indeed some documentation [2], code [3], tests
> [4] and other related stuff [5] in the JGit repo. It looks like the
> JGit repo and the reftable code there are licensed under the Eclipse
> Distribution License - v 1.0 [7] which is very similar to the 3-Clause
> BSD License also called Modified BSD License which is GPL compatible
> according to gnu.org [9]. So from a quick look it appears that I
> should be able to port the JGit to Git if I just keep the copyright
> and license header comments in all the related files.
>
> So I think the most straightforward and compatible way to do it would
> be to port the JGit implementation.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion or comment about this.
>
> Reftable was first described by Shawn and then discussed last July on
> the list [6].
The hope is that such a direct port should be possible, but someone else
should comment on the porting process.
This is also something that could be created independently based on the
documentation you mention. I was planning to attempt that during a
hackathon in July, but I'm happy you are able to start earlier (and that
you are announcing your intentions). I would be happy to review your
patch series, so please keep me posted.
Thanks,
-Stolee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-09 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-09 14:33 Implementing reftable in Git Christian Couder
2018-05-09 14:52 ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2018-05-09 16:07 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-09 16:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-05-09 17:51 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2018-05-09 17:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-05-09 18:05 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2018-05-09 17:42 ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-09 17:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-05-09 17:55 ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-09 18:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-11 9:31 ` Michael Haggerty
2018-05-11 22:21 ` David Turner
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