On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 09:34:42PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > I wanted to add search to git repos ages ago, but it was silly > > expensive in terms of space. That was before extindex... > > > > extindex ought to be able to offer space savings across forks > > and similar documents (commits vs patch mails). > > > > At least dfpre/dfpost/dfn/subject may be enough, even... > > And I'm also thinking extindexing coderepos can make > auto-assocation with inboxes possible. > > Right now, configuring coderepos on a large scale is a huge PITA > given the M:N associations between inboxes and coderepos. > > Being able to do fuzzy JOIN-ish operations based on > blobs/filenames/subjects would allow extindex to automatically > associate coderepos with inboxes and vice-versa.
I wonder how well this would work in the presence of many forks? E.g. most of the content on git.kernel.org are thin forks of linux.git, so matching by blobs/filenames/subjects across all of them would return too many hits and some kind of priority ordering would be required, I think. Overall, though, I do agree that this would be really handy. -K
