From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:40:12 GMT Subject: Re: Possible --remove-empty bug Message-ID: <7vbqw4z25v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: "Marco Costalba" writes: > On 3/13/06, Linus Torvalds 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?