Re: git and larger trees, not so fast?

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> Gaah. This shouldn't be *that* hard to fix, but I'm not entirely sure I'll 
>> have time today.
>
> In fact, I'm almost sure I will *not* have time today.
>
> Anyway, the really trivial (and ugly) fix is to handle the cases of adding 
> _independent_ stages to the index (which is the case for both "git 
> diff-index" and "git read-tree -m") differently...
> ...
> Sadly, this is an area that is almost exclusively mine and Junio's. I'd 
> love for somebody else to get their feet wet,...