Static Analysis: some UI ideas

[Michael Stahl]

On 05/02/13 17:57, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 13:02 +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> On Monday 04 February 2013 22:37:45 David Malcolm wrote:
>>> Content-addressed storage: they're named by SHA-1 sum of their contents,
>>> similar to how git does it, so if the bulk of the files don't change,
>>> they have the same SHA-1 sum and are only stored once.  See e.g.:
>>> http://fedorapeople.org/~dmalcolm/static-analysis/2013-01-30/python-ethtool
>>> -0.7-4.fc19.src.rpm/static-analysis/sources/ I probably should gzip them as
>>>  well.
>>
>> This can indeed save some space.  I really like the idea.  Maybe using a true 
>> git store would give you additional reduction of space requirements thanks to 
>> using the delta compression.
> 
> Interesting.  I had thought that git purely stored compressed files and
> eschewed the idea of deltas, but it does indeed store deltas sometimes:
> http://git-scm.com/book/ch9-4.html

git makes for surprisingly good storage (it's just a pity about the UI);
for example (ab)use see
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/What-is-bibisect-And-what-is-it-doing-in-my-office-td3572953.html