From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Clemens Buchacher" <drizzd@aon.at>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: generation numbers
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:34:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vliw9hoky.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110707185908.GB12044@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:59:08 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> You could "cheat" and instead of storing the sha1 of a blob object in
> the notes tree, use the lower 32 bits to store an actual value. I don't
> think that currently breaks any assumptions in the notes code, but it
> definitely is against the intent of it.
I highly suspect that it would break fsck rather badly. You may not even
be able to repack a repository with such a notes tree.
> For a local lookup cache, I would use a fixed-size binary integer just
> to keep the lookup data structure simple (then you know the width of
> each record ahead of time). For a generation commit header, obviously we
> would go with the ascii representation as we do for other headers.
Yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-07 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-11 19:04 [PATCH 0/4] Speed up git tag --contains Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-06-11 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] tag: speed up --contains calculation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-06-11 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] limit "contains" traversals based on commit timestamp Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-06-11 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] default core.clockskew variable to one day Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-06-11 19:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] Why is "git tag --contains" so slow? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-07-06 6:40 ` [PATCH 0/4] Speed up git tag --contains Jeff King
2011-07-06 6:54 ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 19:06 ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-07-06 6:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-06 7:03 ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 14:26 ` generation numbers (was: [PATCH 0/4] Speed up git tag --contains) Jakub Narebski
2011-07-06 15:01 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-07-06 18:12 ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 18:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-07-07 18:59 ` Jeff King
2011-07-07 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-07-07 20:31 ` generation numbers Jakub Narebski
2011-07-07 20:52 ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-07-08 0:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-08 22:57 ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-07 19:08 ` Jeff King
2011-07-07 20:10 ` Jakub Narebski
2018-01-12 18:56 ` [PATCH 0/4] Speed up git tag --contains csilvers
2018-03-03 5:15 ` Jeff King
2018-03-08 23:05 ` csilvers
2018-03-12 13:45 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-03-12 23:59 ` Jeff King
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