Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261374AbVECEQj (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:16:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261375AbVECEQj (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:16:39 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:61386 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261374AbVECEQb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:16:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 21:18:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Matt Mackall cc: Bill Davidsen , Morten Welinder , Sean , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark In-Reply-To: <20050503032916.GE22038@waste.org> Message-ID: References: <20050429165232.GV21897@waste.org> <427650E7.2000802@tmr.com> <20050502223002.GP21897@waste.org> <20050503000011.GA22038@waste.org> <20050503032916.GE22038@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 794 Lines: 20 On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > The delta is not the object I care about and its representation is > arbitrary. In fact different branches will store different deltas > depending on how their DAGs get topologically sorted. The object I > care about is the original text, so that's the hash I store. Ok. In that case, it sounds like you're really doing everything git is doing, except your "blob" objects effectively can have pointers to a previous object (and you have a different on-disk representation)? Is that correct? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/