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Re: git binary directory?

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Nov 7, 2005, 00:54 UTC
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> I want to avoid extra fork()s and exec()s. They seem to routinely matter
> in orders of magnitude of speed in tight loops.

Yes. The more I think about it, the less I like the separate binary directory after all. The "git cmd" format is great for high-level commands, but we've always done "git-diff-tree" and "git-rev-list" etc without the "git cmd" indirection.

The downsides of a separate binary directory appear to be bigger than the upside..

		Linus
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