also sprach Ben Gamari <bgamari at gmail.com> [2010.02.18.1519 +1300]: > > So retagging is really just writing a new tree with a modified list > > of references. > > > Certainly, however if you have a large tag (>100,000 messages), this > list of reference could easily be tens of megabytes. For this reason, it > seems like the added overhead of nesting trees would be well worth it.
True ? iff we find a way to enumerate trees referencing a given blob or tree so that we can walk up the hierarchy. I could look right now, but I am about to cross half of the globe tomorrow, so I have other things I should rather be doing. Sorry. -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "men always want to be a woman's first love. women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance." -- oscar wilde spamtraps: madduck.bogus at madduck.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20100218/348ab02a/attachment.pgp>
