From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:15:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git status: small difference between stating whole repository and small subdirectory
Message-ID: <7vwr7my1pf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <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.