From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:43:09 GMT
Subject: Re: comparing file contents in is_exact_match?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607170840280.15611@evo.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607171439270.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>



On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> But note that we usually use the whole contents of the mmap()ed file 
> anyway.

Not for pack-files, though. You may have a half-gigabyte pack-file, and 
only use a small small fraction of it.

(You also never really rename them, so windows should be fine for that 
case)

		Linus