From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:51:27 GMT Subject: Re: git and larger trees, not so fast? Message-ID: <7vhcn8w6sw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> While I do not think the previous one was hacky at all, this one >> IS a hack, not meant for inclusion. > ... > Sadly, that removal is required for some of the other cases, so it's not > like we can remove the remove. But we could *possibly* make things > ridiculously much faster by making the remove a lazy thing, and if the > next index operation just adds it back in, we wouldn't move things around. Heh, that makes the two of us. I have been wanting to revamp or kill off unpack-trees for quite some time, and after all the patch you are responding to might be a small first step in the right direction ;-).