Re: Adding a new file as if it had existed

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 12:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612121305430.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7ac1e90c0612120332o20d6778bsa16a788fdc04a3a1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Bahadir Balban wrote:

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> On 12/12/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > No.
> > 
> > I do not understand why not adding all the files you care about
> > eventually anyway in the initial commit is needed for
> > "performance reasons", if you do not touch majority of them for
> > a long time.  Care to explain?
> 
> If I don't know which files I may be touching in the future for
> implementing some feature,

When I use an SCM, it is to track the revisions of a project. It seems you are content to have only parts of a revision? That does not make sense to me.

> I said "performance reasons" assuming all the file hashes need checked 
> for every commit -a to see if they're changed, but I just tried on a 
> PIII and it seems not so slow.

Bingo!

You just felt the consequences of the "index".

Ciao, Dscho