From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:40:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting rid of symlinks in .git?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511111636400.16210@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051111150530.GT30496@pasky.or.cz>

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> > 
> > Please note that symlinks are much more performant than symrefs. Working a 
> > lot with switching branches, this matters.
> 
> What operations get slowed down noticeably in particular?

Well, if you have to read two files instead of one, it is 100% slower ;-)

> Do you have any timing testcases and data at hand?

No and no.

Note that the only symlink/symref you usually have is .git/HEAD. But it 
feels wrong to take the worse approach in *all* cases, just because 
*one* brain-fscked file system/operating system does not support the 
superior approach.

Conclusion: I can live with the symref support in git "AS IS".

Ciao,
Dscho