Hello,

Martin Waitz wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:28:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:
> > 
> > > To make purge and fsck work we have the hard requirement that it
> > > must be possible to list all objects which belong to one submodule.
> > 
> > I understand you would want to separate the ref namespace, but I
> > still do not see why you would want to have a separate object
> > store, laid out in a funny way.  Unless you are thinking about
> > using rsync to transfer object store, that is.
> 
> I want to be able to list all objects which are not reachable in the
> object store, without traversing all submodules at the same time.
> The only way I can think of to achieve this is to have one separate
> object store per submodule and then do the traversal per submodule.
I might have understood something wrongly, but to list objects that are
not reachable you need to traverse all trees anyhow, don't you.  

Then how big is the difference between a directory and an submodule?
I'd expect it's not so big if the submodules included in different
revisions of the supermodule share most of their history.  Of course you
need to exploit that.  Thinking again that might be the problem?

Best regards
Uwe

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Uwe Kleine-K