Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > For the "git database" thing above, I've been contemplating the
> > idea of an index stored external from the Git object database.
> 
> The whole point of my exercise was to reuse as much as possible of Git's 
> framework.  After all, if you store an index external from Git's object 
> database, you go back to reimplementing the whole infrastructure for 
> fetching/merging just for that index.

Yea, I know.

It might just be easier to abandon everything in Git and start
from scratch for the "git database" thing.  But we'd lose the
ability to at least piggyback onto the existing Git transport.
And it doesn't help the "git notes" feature we're talking about.

Maybe I was viewing the external index as like the working tree,
where you can't really access the data until the external indexes
are current, just like you can't really (easily anyway) access the
working tree files until you bring the working tree current.  But
yea, it doesn't really use any of the existing machinary.

-- 
Shawn.
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