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From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, peff@peff.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] midx.c: use `pack-objects --stdin-packs` when repacking
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:05:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8c42bd6-4aef-d310-b988-108bf74ebb96@github.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yy364WAutGIdXCub@nand.local>

On 9/23/2022 2:28 PM, Taylor Blau wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 02:23:30PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>> Do you know if there is any reason to do this explicitly? Does this
>> change the set of objects in any way (perhaps by not including
>> duplicates that are tracked in those other packs)?
> 
> Yes. The "^" lines become excluded packs from the perspective of the
> follow-on reachability traversal to discover the namehashes. So as soon
> as we hit an object contained in one of the packs marked as excluded,
> we'll halt the traversal along that direction, since we know that we're
> not going to pick up any objects in those packs.
> 
> So you could omit them, and you'd get the same resulting pack, but it
> would take longer to generate since we wouldn't be stopping the
> follow-on traversal as early as possible.

Excellent. Thanks for explaining that!

-Stolee

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <YyokIf%2FSd7SYztKQ@nand.local>
2022-09-20 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] midx: use `--stdin-packs` to implement `repack` Taylor Blau
2022-09-20 20:40   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] midx.c: compute pack_info array outside of fill_included_packs_batch() Taylor Blau
2022-09-20 20:40   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] midx.c: use `pack-objects --stdin-packs` when repacking Taylor Blau
2022-09-23 18:23     ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-23 18:28       ` Taylor Blau
2022-09-23 19:05         ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2022-09-20 20:40   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] midx.c: unify `include_pack` array into `pack_info` struct Taylor Blau
2022-09-20 21:54   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] midx: use `--stdin-packs` to implement `repack` Jeff King
2022-09-21 19:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-23 18:29     ` Taylor Blau

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