Re: [PATCH] write-tree performance problems

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Very true, you can't replace quilt with git without ruining both of them.
> >  But it would be nice to take a quilt tree and turn it into a git tree
> > for merging purposes, or to make use of whatever visualization tools
> > might exist someday.
>
> Fair enough. The thing is, going from quilt->git really is a pretty "big
> decision", since it's the decision that says "I will now really commit all
> this quilt changes forever and ever".
>
> Which is also why I think it's actually ok to take a minute to do 100
> quilt patches. This is not something you do on a whim. It's something
> you'd better think about. It's turning a very fluid environment into a
> unchangable, final thing.
>

> I'll think about it. I'd love to speed up write-tree, and keeping track of
> it in the index is a nice little trick, but it's not quite high enough up
> on my worries for me to act on it right now.
>
> But if you want to try to see how nasty it would be to add tree index
> entries to the index file at "write-tree" time automatically, hey...
>