Re: Can I have this, pretty please?

"Jon Smirl" [off-list ref] writes:

On 8/12/07, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

IOW, showing the whole history for a big project is simply pretty
expensive. If you have a hundred thousand commits, just keeping track of
the tree structure *is* going to take megabytes and megabytes of data.
Limiting the size of the problem is usually a really good solution,
especially since most people tend to care about what happened in the last
few days, not what happened five months ago.

Could the topological graph for a packfile be computed at pack time
and stored in the packfile so that gitk doesn't have to keep
recomputing it? Does it work to merge multiple precomputed graphs
retrieved from the pack files?

The parent information basically _is_ a bare-bones specification of
the topological graph.

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