Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add delta islands support

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Chris,


On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Christian Couder wrote:

> This patch series is upstreaming work made by GitHub and available in:
> 
> https://github.com/peff/git/commits/jk/delta-islands
> 
> The patch in the above branch has been split into 5 patches with their
> own new commit message, but no other change has been made.
> 
> I kept Peff as the author and took the liberty to add his
> Signed-off-by to all the patches.
> 
> The patches look good to me except perhaps that "pack.islandCore" is
> not documented. Maybe something could be added in
> Documentation/technical/ too, or maybe improving commit messages could
> be enough.
> 
> Anyway I wanted to send this nearly "as is" first to get early
> feedback about what should be done.
> 
> This patch series is also available on GitHub in:
> 
> https://github.com/chriscool/git/commits/delta-islands

It might make sense to explain *somewhere* in the cover letter what the
patches are all about, i.e. what problem they are supposed to solve. I did
not see any indication here.

Ciao,
Dscho

> 
> Jeff King (5):
>   packfile: make get_delta_base() non static
>   Add delta-islands.{c,h}
>   pack-objects: add delta-islands support
>   repack: add delta-islands support
>   t: add t9930-delta-islands.sh
> 
>  Documentation/config.txt           |   8 +
>  Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt |  88 ++++++
>  Documentation/git-repack.txt       |   5 +
>  Makefile                           |   1 +
>  builtin/pack-objects.c             | 130 +++++---
>  builtin/repack.c                   |   9 +
>  delta-islands.c                    | 490 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  delta-islands.h                    |  11 +
>  pack-objects.h                     |   4 +
>  packfile.c                         |  10 +-
>  packfile.h                         |   3 +
>  t/t9930-delta-islands.sh           | 143 +++++++++
>  12 files changed, 856 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 delta-islands.c
>  create mode 100644 delta-islands.h
>  create mode 100755 t/t9930-delta-islands.sh
> 
> -- 
> 2.18.0.237.gffdb1dbdaa
> 
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