Re: Following renames

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2006, 03:19 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603251919170.15714@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060326014946.GB18185@pasky.or.cz>

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:

> 
>   In [1], Linus suggests a non-core solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't
> fly - it requires at least two git-ls-tree calls per revision which
> would bog things down awfully (to roughly half of the original speed).

No it doesn't. It requires one git-ls-tree WHEN SOMETHING IS RENAMED.

In other words, basically never.

		Linus

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