On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:24:13PM +0100, Vicent Martí wrote: > >> > One thing I noticed after tg/index-v4-format is both libgit2 and jgit >> > do not seem to support index v4. So we could add "index v4 support on >> > libgit2" to the idea page. It's a relatively small task though once >> > you get a hang on index format. >> >> That sounds like a nice task for the Summer of Code too, specially >> with the current effort to make Index v4 more visible in Core Git. > > Yeah, I'd agree. Want to write it up? > >> I wonder if anybody from JGit would also be interested on mentoring >> for the equivalent task (index v4 on JGit). I've CC'ed Shawn Pearce. > > A project that added to both libgit2 and JGit would be cool, but I don't > know if that is asking too much of the student (multiple languages and > projects is going to increase the time spent on non-code friction).
I agree, its too much to ask from a single student to add it to both projects. As far as JGit supporting index v4, I am holding my breath and waiting for index v5. We keep spinning through dircache versions with relatively little gain for each one, but a lot of complexity. As it was a prior version was sort of a disaster with the fixed length portion of records being either 62 or 64 bytes depending on a bit set per record. Yuck. I haven't been reading every message in the v4 topic but nothing impressed me as being worth my time to implement in JGit, other than to be compatible with a version of git-core that won't land in Debian stable for at least 2 more years. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
