From: Petr Baudis Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:55:29 GMT Subject: Re: Merge with git-pasky II. Message-ID: <20050418005529.GF1461@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050418004906.GA3132@gondor.apana.org.au> Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:49:06AM CEST, I got a letter where Herbert Xu told me that... > Therefore the only conclusion I can draw is that we're only calling > update-cache on the set of changed files, or at most a small superset > of them. In that case, the cost of the collision check *is* proportional > to the size of the change. Yes, of course, sorry for the confusion. We only consider files you either specify manually or which have their stat metadata changed relative to the directory cache. (That is from the git-pasky perspective; from the plumbing perspective, the user just does update-cache on whatever he picks.) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor