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Re: Possible --remove-empty bug

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 18, 2006, 06:40 UTC
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"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 3/13/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>>
>> However, to be honest, the only reason to ever use --remove-empty is for
>> rename detection, and Frederik's approach of doing that through the
>> library interface directly is actually a much superior option. So we might
>> as well drop the compilcation of --remove-empty entirely, unless somebody
>> has already started using it.
>
> In case of a rather recent file --remove-empty option gives a good
> speed up in history loading with git-rev-list. So qgit uses that
> option.

So you _do_ use it, and I think I still have that remove-empty stuff held back in "next" branch. Should I unleash it?

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  1. Marco CostalbaMar 12, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMar 12, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsMar 13, 2006
  7. Marco CostalbaMar 17, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 18, 2006
  9. Marco CostalbaMar 18, 2006

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