Re: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Matthieu Moy
[off-list ref] wrote:

Feel free to start writting an idea for
http://git.github.io/SoC-2016-Ideas/. It'd be nice to have a few more
ideas before Friday. We can polish them later if needed.

Probably too late now, anyway.. with David's multiple ref backend
work, we could have a third, no-dependency backend. We can use index
format to store refs. Then we can avoid case-sensitivity issue with
filesystems. Split-index could make it relatively cheap for updating
refs. Later on, when we can store tree objects in index (*), some
(rarely used) refs could be stored as tree objects and we can reduce
index file size (and loading cost). This idea is inspired by Shawn's
storing refs as tree objects mail, except that I stopped at "wait, if
we want to create trees we (usually) have to go through index, why not
just stop at index?".

(*) In have some WIP in this area, but not ready for public discussion
yet. And it's out of scope for GSoC.
-- 
Duy