Subject: Re: Feature request: secondary index by path fragment

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 16:22:11 -0700

"Robin H. Johnson" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Gentoo has some tooling that boils down to repeated runs of 'git log -- somepath/'
> via cgit as well as other shell tooling.
> ...
> I was wondering if Git could gain a secondary index of commits, based on
> path prefixes, that would speed up the 'git log' run.

Perhaps the bloom filters are good fit for the use case?