Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Apr 27, 2005, 15:01 UTC
Message-ID: <871x8wb6w4.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <426ED20B.9070706@zytor.com>

* H. Peter Anvin:

> While you're doing this anyway, you might want to make sure you enable 
> -O +dir_index and run fsck -D.

Directory hashing has a negative impact on some applications (notably tar and unpatched mutt on large Maildir folders). For git, it's a win because hashing destroys locality anyway.

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