From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:08:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read-tree -m -u: avoid getting confused by intermediate symlinks.
Message-ID: <81b0412b0705110708y7e3a9024p9e117e2da84ae916@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vveezde8b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/11/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> @@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ static void unlink_entry(char *name)
>  {
>         char *cp, *prev;
>
> +       if (has_symlink_leading_path(name))
> +               return;

This can slow down the unlink case quiet considerably.
Maybe the symlink paths can be cached?