From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:01:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks
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.