Re: git-index-pack really does suck..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Apr 3, 2007, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704031425220.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070403211709.GJ27706@spearce.org>

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Right.  But maybe we shouldn't be scanning for packfiles every
> time we don't find a loose object.  Especially if the caller is in
> a context where we actually *expect* to not find said object like
> half of the time... say in git-add/update-index.  ;-)

Yes, we could definitely skip the re-lookup if we had a "don't really care, I can recreate the object myself" flag (ie anybody who is going to write that object)

			Linus

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