From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 05:02:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] exclude: do strcmp as much as possible before fnmatch
Message-ID: <7vwr3w6gqd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vgd7ap9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> And this does not happen per path you check; exclude_stack used by
> excluded() is designed to take advantage of the access pattern that
> we tend to check paths from the same directory together, so such an
> adjustment will be per directory switching (i.e. it will be part of
> the prep_exclude() overhead that is amortized over paths you walk).

Just in case it wasn't clear, I didn't mean to say "mine is the
right way to do so; I will reject your patch that doesn't do so".