From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:39:16 GMT
Subject: Re: irc usage..
Message-ID: <7v8xotadm3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060522214128.GE16677@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> writes:

> 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. ;-)

I think cvsimport predates that option, but these days that loop
can be optimized by feeding --index-info from standard input.