From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcus Harnisch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Navigating an enormous code base Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:40:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877d7aq5qy.fsf@cock.li> <87bkwmo56v.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16784"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.1 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 28 16:45:19 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nk5OQ-00044E-Sh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:45:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51748 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nk5OP-00064g-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nk5JU-00054z-JQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nk5JP-0006Cf-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nk5JN-0007mP-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:40:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 6 X-Spam_score: 0.6 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA=2.309, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137065 Archived-At: On 28/04/2022 16.30, John Yates wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 3:14 AM Marcus Harnisch wrote: >> >> I don't bother and don't partition the project (comprising of 10k files, >> and 50+ nested subprojects) > > That's puny. In my code base a typical 'project' (a tree rooted > at a Makefile) has ~2k files. I work on foundational elements > so my workspaces include those components that can be > affected by my changes. A workspace is ~220GB. There are > 400+ direct siblings of handful of projects where my efforts are > focused. All I can tell from this is that creating the full index will probably take a bit longer. Why don't you give it a try and then decide?