From: Matthias Urlichs Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:41:28 GMT Subject: Re: irc usage.. Message-ID: <20060522214128.GE16677@kiste.smurf.noris.de> In-Reply-To: Hi, Linus Torvalds: > I wonder why those "git-update-index" calls seem to be (assuming I read > the perl correctly) done only a few files at a time. We can do a hundreds > in one go, but it seems to want to do just ten files or something at the > same time. No, fifty. I simply was too lazy to count the actual filenames' lengths. ;-) > That thing would probably be an order of magnitude faster if written to > use the git library interfaces directly. Of course, the CVS part is > probably a big overhead, so it might not help much The beast *was* mainly written to do this remotely... -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. -- Aristotle