Re: Commit cache to speed up rev-list and merge

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:51:51AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] wrote:

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I'd like to see some sort of extension mechanism like in
$GIT_DIR/index, so that we don't have to increase pack index version
often. What I have in mind is optional commit cache to speed up
rev-list and merge, which could be stored in pack index too.

Can you share some of your ideas?

Some of it is here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/203308

-Peff