From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:05:48 GMT
Subject: Re: In tree object, Must the
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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.