From: Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:57:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Efficiently detecting paths that differ from each other only in case
Message-ID: <AANLkTimAhjHm5Z4ekTOBaxwzyw2YD6MrRnB1O8E6nAtw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101008195120.GA10810@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> One thing to consider, though, is if this is a hook running on the
> server, you probably don't want to look at the index. You probably want
> to look for duplicates in one tree entry (fed to the hook). So you would
> be using git ls-tree, which probably is a bit slower.

Thanks, but why is that?  Why can't I use ls-files, and must use use
ls-tree, which you say would be slower?

For extra details: is the central Git repository, running under
Gitorious, on a fairly powerful server. It's a bare repo, naturally.

D