From: Alex Riesen Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:08:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Revisiting cache-tree Message-ID: <81b0412b0904200608r7b986160p15ec0afb826ee1f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1240225100-29960-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> 2009/4/20 Junio C Hamano : > This series consists of a fix meant for maint branch, and two performance > fix.  The second one is a refactoring of the code to support the latter. > > I was doing a rather huge import as a multi-step process by doing > something like this: > >        $ rm -f $GIT_DIR/index >        $ git add some ;# this one is huge >        $ git tag one $(git write-tree) >        $ git repack -a -d >        $ rm -f $GIT_DIR/index >        $ git add other ;# this one is also huge >        $ git tag two $(git write-tree) >        $ git repack -a -d > >        $ git read-tree some other "git read-tree one two"