Re: git status: small difference between stating whole repository and small subdirectory
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Feb 16, 2012, 20:15 UTC
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- <7vwr7my1pf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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- <87d39eswkx.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:
> ... If my memory of pack organization serves > right, the commit objects involved would essentially be spread across > the whole pack
No they are crumped together in a contiguous section in a packfile, so that "git log" without any pathspec can go faster without consulting tree objects.