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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Speed up fetch with large number of tags
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:19:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vab0uwk8w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090916230350.GC14660@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Wed\, 16 Sep 2009 16\:03\:50 -0700")

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>> Also, you might not have noticed, but my illustration patch was merely
>> using it as a hint to optimize, and if the last ref we saw was not X when
>> it is turn to handle X^{}, it simply falled back to the original logic,
>> iow, the patch never compromised the correctness.
>
> Oh, I missed that.  JGit I think flat out panics and disconnects
> if the remote does this to us.  What is the incentive in supporting
> a broken server with a slower client?

There is none.

I think the original logic, being written in shell, run grep in the
output, and the C code we are seeing is a literal translation of that.

In other words, I think it is simply a historical accident.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-16  7:53 [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Speed up fetch with large number of tags Julian Phillips
2009-09-16  7:53 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/2] ref-dict: Add a set of functions for working with a ref dictionary Julian Phillips
2009-09-16  7:53 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/2] fetch: Speed up fetch by using " Julian Phillips
2009-09-16  9:44 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Speed up fetch with large number of tags Junio C Hamano
2009-09-16 22:32   ` Julian Phillips
2009-09-16 22:42     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-16 22:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-16 23:03         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-16 23:19           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-09-16 22:53     ` [RFC/PATCH v2] fetch: Speed up fetch by rewriting find_non_local_tags Julian Phillips
2009-09-16 23:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-16 23:46         ` Julian Phillips
2009-09-17  1:30           ` Julian Phillips
2009-09-17  7:13             ` Johan Herland
2009-09-17  7:33               ` [RFC/PATCH v3] " Julian Phillips
2009-09-16 22:46   ` [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Speed up fetch with large number of tags Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-22 20:36     ` Junio C Hamano

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