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Re: In tree object, Must the

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Apr 9, 2012, 20:05 UTC
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> ... And that niggly bit about subtrees sorting as
> though their names end in '/' even though they don't really matters.

Yeah, in older and buggier unpack-trees it might have made the code simpler while walking the index and the tree in parallel, but when we have to deal with D/F conflicts, we have to find a entry with matching name anyway, so it turned out not to be a win at all.

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