On 01/29/2013 10:16 AM, Jeff King wrote: > When we are doing a commit traversal that does not need to > look at the commit messages themselves (e.g., rev-list, > merge-base, etc), we spend a lot of time accessing, > decompressing, and parsing the commit objects just to find > the parent and timestamp information. We can make a > space-time tradeoff by caching that information on disk in a > compact, uncompressed format. > > TODO: document on-disk format in Documentation/technical > TODO: document API
Would this be a good place to add the commit generation number that is so enthusiastically discussed on the mailing list from time to time? Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
