Re: speeding up cg-log -u

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Whenever I work with those "struct object" derivatives, I get
very frustrated by the fact that they are designed to cater only
to the need of very narrow immediate users. 

They aren't designed for the immediate users; they're implemented for the
immediate users. Feel free to add more fields as you need them. The
current selection is based on only adding things when there's a user for
them.

The first round of tree objects did not even have names for each entry
because the only thing it cared about was connectivity checking, and for
that purpose callers would not care about what each blob or
subtree was referred as.  Now when I want to use commit objects
I find that it only records the commit date (other than
connectivity information).  It really appears that connectivity
is the primary thing and everything else is bolted on top.

Existance is the primary thing, and everything else was added as
needed. (Pure connectivity is a bit special, because it's a property of
generic objects so that fsck-cache doesn't need to know about particular
types of objects unless there are particular things to check about them)

If you need more fields, let me know, and I'll figure out how to include
them.

	-Daniel
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