From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:50:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fsck/lost-found's speed vs git-prune's
Message-ID: <20070918095049.GA9388@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4phswcuj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:18:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > I was wondering if that was to be expected for git-fsck to be
> > significantly slower than git-prune (by several orders of magnitude) ?
> 
> fsck validates objects are correct and sane.  prune only looks
> at reachability.

Now, the speed difference makes sense, but I wouldn't expect lost-found
to actually bother validating objects...

Mike