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author | Santiago M. Mola <santi@mola.io> | 2016-12-14 23:12:44 +0100 |
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committer | Máximo Cuadros <mcuadros@gmail.com> | 2016-12-14 23:12:44 +0100 |
commit | 0af572dd21c0aa79d13745b633ee24ba6c4d6cf1 (patch) | |
tree | 49e81e74e82d84fd88b2fc1e4b0dc7c7bfe9c40f /plumbing/difftree/internal/merkletrie/doc.go | |
parent | df0f38af83f972f026d7e14150f3d37b95f13484 (diff) | |
download | go-git-0af572dd21c0aa79d13745b633ee24ba6c4d6cf1.tar.gz |
move plumbing from top level package to plumbing (#183)
* plumbing: rename Object -> EncodedObject.
* plumbing/storer: rename ObjectStorer -> EncodedObjectStorer.
* move difftree to plumbing/difftree.
* move diff -> utils/diff
* make Object/Tag/Blob/Tree/Commit/File depend on storer.
* Object and its implementations now depend only on
storer.EncodedObjectStorer, not git.Repository.
* Tests are decoupled accordingly.
* move Object/Commit/File/Tag/Tree to plumbing/object.
* move Object/Commit/File/Tag/Tree to plumbing/object.
* move checkClose to utils/ioutil.
* move RevListObjects to plumbing/revlist.Objects.
* move DiffTree to plumbing/difftree package.
* rename files with plural nouns to singular
* plumbing/object: add GetBlob/GetCommit/GetTag/GetTree.
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diff --git a/plumbing/difftree/internal/merkletrie/doc.go b/plumbing/difftree/internal/merkletrie/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8c3b2f --- /dev/null +++ b/plumbing/difftree/internal/merkletrie/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +package merkletrie + +/* +Package merkletrie gives support for n-ary trees that are at the same +time Merkle trees and Radix trees, and provides an efficient tree +comparison algorithm for them. + +Git trees are Radix n-ary trees in virtue of the names of their +tree entries. At the same time, git trees are Merkle trees thanks to +their hashes. + +When comparing git trees, the simple approach of alphabetically sorting +their elements and comparing the resulting lists is not enough as it +depends linearly on the number of files in the trees: When a directory +has lots of files but none of them has been modified, this approach is +very expensive. We can do better by prunning whole directories that +have not change, by just by looking at their hashes. This package +provides the tools to do exactly that. + +This package defines Radix-Merkle trees as nodes that should have: +- a hash: the Merkle part of the Radix-Merkle tree +- a key: the Radix part of the Radix-Merkle tree + +The Merkle hash condition is not enforced by this package though. This +means that node hashes doesn't have to take into account the hashes of +their children, which is good for testing purposes. + +Nodes in the Radix-Merkle tree are abstracted by the Noder interface. +The intended use is that git.Tree implements this interface. +*/ |