Update TOpic script to show how old they are.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

ClonePlus.txt

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+From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Subject: Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience
+Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:36:41 -0800
+Message-ID: <7v4q3453qu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
+References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602102018250.3691@g5.osdl.org>
+	<7vwtg2o37c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
+	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0602110943170.3691@g5.osdl.org>
+	<1139685031.4183.31.camel@evo.keithp.com> <43EEAEF3.7040202@op5.se>
+	<1139717510.4183.34.camel@evo.keithp.com>
+	<46a038f90602121806jfcaac41tb98b8b4cd4c07c23@mail.gmail.com>
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
+Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
+	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
+	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
+	Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
+Return-path: <git-owner@vger.kernel.org>
+In-Reply-To: <46a038f90602121806jfcaac41tb98b8b4cd4c07c23@mail.gmail.com>
+	(Martin Langhoff's message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:06:42 +1300")
+
+Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
+
+> +1... there should be an easy-to-compute threshold trigger to say --
+> hey, let's quit being smart and send this client the packs we got and
+> get it over with. Or perhaps a client flag so large projects can
+> recommend that uses do their initial clone with --gimme-all-packs?
+
+What upload-pack does boils down to:
+
+    * find out the latest of what client has and what client asked.
+
+    * run "rev-list --objects ^client ours" to make a list of
+      objects client needs.  The actual command line has multiple
+      "clients" to exclude what is unneeded to be sent, and
+      multiple "ours" to include refs asked.  When you are doing
+      a full clone, ^client is empty and ours is essentially
+      --all.
+
+    * feed that output to "pack-objects --stdout" and send out
+      the result.
+
+If you run this command:
+
+	$ git-rev-list --objects --all |
+          git-pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null 
+
+It would say some things.  The phases of operations are:
+
+	Generating pack...
+	Counting objects XXXX...
+        Done counting XXXX objects.
+        Packing XXXXX objects.....
+
+Phase (1).  Between the time it says "Generating pack..." upto
+"Done counting XXXX objects.", the time is spent by rev-list to
+list up all the objects to be sent out.
+
+Phase (2). After that, it tries to make decision what object to
+delta against what other object, while twenty or so dots are
+printed after "Packing XXXXX objects." (see #git irc log a
+couple of days ago; Linus describes how pack building works).
+
+Phase (3). After the dot stops, the program becomes silent.
+That is where it actually does delta compression and writeout.
+
+You would notice that quite a lot of time is spent in all
+phases.
+
+There is an internal hook to create full repository pack inside
+upload-pack (which is what runs on the other end when you run
+fetch-pack or clone-pack), but it works slightly differently
+from what you are suggesting, in that it still tries to do the
+"correct" thing.  It still runs "rev-list --objects --all", so
+"dangling objects" are never sent out.
+
+We could cheat in all phases to speed things up, at the expense
+of ending up sending excess objects.  So let's pretend we
+decided to treat everything in .git/objects/packs/pack-* (and
+the ones found in alternates as well) have interesting objects
+for the cloner.
+
+(1) This part unfortunately cannot be totally eliminated.  By
+    assume all packs are interesting, we could use the object
+    names from the pack index, which is a lot cheaper than
+    rev-list object traversal.  We still need to run rev-list
+    --objects --all --unpacked to pick up loose objects we would
+    not be able to tell by looking at the pack index to cover
+    the rest.
+
+    This however needs to be done in conjunction with the second
+    phase change.  pack-objects depends on the hint rev-list
+    --objects output gives it to group the blobs and trees with
+    the same pathnames together, and that greatly affects the
+    packing efficiency.  Unfortunately pack index does not have
+    that information -- it does not know type, nor pathnames.
+    Type is relatively cheap to obtain but pathnames for blob
+    objects are inherently unavailable.
+
+(2) This part can be mostly eliminated for already packed
+    objects, because we have already decided to cheat by sending
+    everything, so we can just reuse how objects are deltified
+    in existing packs.  It still needs to be done for loose
+    objects we collected to fill the gap in (1).
+
+(3) This also can be sped up by reusing what are already in
+    packs.  Pack index records starting (but not end) offset of
+    each object in the pack, so we can sort by offset to find
+    out which part of the existing pack corresponds to what
+    object, to reorder the objects in the final pack.  This
+    needs to be done somewhat carefully to preserve the locality
+    of objects (again, see #git log).  The deltifying and
+    compressing for loose objects cannot be avoided.
+
+    While we are writing things out in (3), we need to keep
+    track of running SHA1 sum of what we write out so that we
+    can fill out the correct checksum at the end, but I am
+    guessing that is relatively cheap compared to the
+    deltification and compression cost we are currently paying
+    in this phase.
+
+NB. In the #git log, Linus made it sound like I am clueless
+about how pack is generated, but if you check commit 9d5ab96,
+the "recency of delta is inherited from base", one of the tricks
+that have a big performance impact, was done by me ;-).
+
+

ResettingPaths.txt

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+From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Subject: Resetting paths
+Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:40:15 -0800
+Message-ID: <7vlkwjzv0w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
+Return-path: <git-owner@vger.kernel.org>
+
+While working on "assume unchanged" git series, I found one
+thing missing from the current set of tools.
+
+While I worked on parts of the system that deals with the cached
+lstat() information, I needed a way to debug that, so I hacked
+ls-files -t option to show entries marked as "always matches the
+index" with lowercase tag letters.  This was primarily debugging
+aid hack.
+
+Then I committed the whole thing with "git commit -a" by
+mistake.  In order to rewind the HEAD to pre-commit state, I can
+say "git reset --soft HEAD^", but after doing that, now I want
+to unupdate the index so that ls-files.c matches the pre-commit
+HEAD.
+
+"git reset --mixed" is a heavy-handed tool for that.  It reads
+the entier index from the HEAD commit without touching the
+working tree, so I would need to add the modified paths back
+with "git update-index".
+
+The low-level voodoo to do so for this particular case is this
+single liner:
+
+	git ls-tree HEAD ls-files.c | git update-index --index-info
+
+Have people found themselves in similar need like this?  This
+could take different forms.
+
+ * you did "git update-index" on a wrong path.  This is my
+   example and the above voodoo is a recipe for recovery.
+
+ * you did "git add" on a wrong path and you want to remove it.
+   This is easier than the above:
+
+	git update-index --force-remove path
+
+ * you did the above recovery from "git add" on a wrong path,
+   and you want to add it again.  The same voodoo would work in
+   this case as well.
+
+	git ls-tree HEAD path | git update-index --index-info
+
+We could add "git reset path..." to reduce typing for the above,
+but I am wondering if it is worth it.
+
+BTW, this shows how "index centric" git is.  With other SCM that
+has only the last commit and the working tree files, you do not
+have to worry any of these things, so it might appear that index
+is just a nuisance.  But if you do not have any "registry of
+paths to be committed", you cannot do a partial commit like what
+I did above ("commit changes to all files other than
+ls-files.c") without listing all the paths to be committed, or
+fall back on CVS style "one path at a time", breaking an atomic
+commit, so there is a drawback for not having an index as well.
+
+
+

TO

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ sed -n \
     -e '/^[^\/][^\/]\//p' |
 while read topic
 do
-	rebase= done= not_done= trouble=
+	rebase= done= not_done= trouble= date=
 
 	# (1)
 	only_next_1=`git-rev-list ^master "^$topic" ${next} | sort`
@@ -55,16 +55,14 @@ do
 
 	# (2)
 	not_in_master=`
-		git-rev-list --pretty=oneline ^master "$topic" |
-		sed -e 's/^[0-9a-f]* //'
+		git-rev-list ^master "$topic"
 	`
 	test -z "$not_in_master" &&
 	done="${LF}Fully merged -- delete."
 
 	# (3)
 	not_in_next=`
-		git-rev-list --pretty=oneline ^${next} "$topic" |
-		sed -e 's/^[0-9a-f]* / - /'
+		git-rev-list --pretty=oneline ^${next} "$topic"
 	`
 	if test -n "$not_in_next"
 	then
@@ -72,6 +70,12 @@ do
 		then
 			trouble="${LF}### MODIFIED AFTER COOKED ###"
 		fi
+		last=`expr "$not_in_next" : '\([0-9a-f]*\) '`
+		date=`
+			git-rev-list -1 --pretty "$last" |
+			sed -ne 's/^Date: *\(.*\)/ (\1)/p'
+		`
+		not_in_next=`echo "$not_in_next" | sed -e 's/^[0-9a-f]* / - /'`
 		not_done="${LF}Still not merged in ${next}$rebase.$LF$not_in_next"
 	elif test -n "$done"
 	then
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@ do
 		not_done="${LF}Up to date."
 	fi
 
-	echo "*** $topic ***$trouble$done$not_done"
+	echo "*** $topic ***$date$trouble$done$not_done"
 
 	if test -z "$trouble$not_done" &&
 	    test -n "$done" &&