From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:28:42 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Message-ID: <1430418522.22711.22.camel@ubuntu>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzj5pzdfo.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 11:19 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
> 
> > In no case did we do a ls-files command,...
> 
> "ls-tree -r" is what I would have imagined you would be using, as
> somebody needs to have the full repository in order to resolve the
> symbolic links _anyway_, and that somebody does not need to have a
> checkout in order to do so.

Yes, they have the full repo, but we are only exploring a small fraction
of it. ls-tree -r would require parsing the entire thing.