From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 07:01:48 GMT
Subject: Re: 'read-tree -m head' vs 'read-tree head'
Message-ID: <20050504070148.GF18380@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vr7gnpjkq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hello Junio,

>     Normally "read-tree -m" is the preferred form from
>     performance point of view, especially on a large project.
>     The only case you need to use "read-tree" without -m is when
>     the cache contains conflicting merge results and you want to
>     start from scratch.

thanks for the bottom line. That explains why Linus uses it in his
git-pull-script.

	Thomas