Re: [jgit-dev] Question on large object streams

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Dmitry Neverov <dmitry.neverov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Great! We will be happy to try this solution. Thanks :)

Needs someone to write it first... :-)

> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Maybe instead of using the loose objects as our cache we need an
>> independent disk based delta base cache that stores the files as raw
>> content, rather than wrapped up in a zlib stream, so we can do random
>> seeks to match copy instructions.  This is a whole lot more code to
>> write, because we also need to manage pruning items from the cache to
>> prevent the disk usage from becoming too high.


-- 
Shawn.