Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 00/10] Add initial experimental external ODB support

2016-06-30 Thread Christian Couder
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > Christian Couder wrote: >> Design discussion about performance >> ~~~ >> >> Yeah, it is not efficient to fork/exec a command to just read or write >> one object to or from the external ODB. Batch calls and/or usi

Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 00/10] Add initial experimental external ODB support

2016-06-29 Thread Eric Wong
Christian Couder wrote: > Design discussion about performance > ~~~ > > Yeah, it is not efficient to fork/exec a command to just read or write > one object to or from the external ODB. Batch calls and/or using a > daemon and/or RPC should be used instead to be able

[RFC/PATCH v2 00/10] Add initial experimental external ODB support

2016-06-28 Thread Christian Couder
Goal Git can store its objects only in the form of loose objects in separate files or packed objects in a pack file. To be able to better handle some kind of objects, for example big blobs, it would be nice if Git could store its objects in other object databases (ODB). To do that, this pat