Re: Consequences of CRLF in index?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 25, 2017, 12:13 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710251412100.6482@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20171024190234.GA21077@tor.lan>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

> The penalty may be low, but Dscho once reported that it [line endings
> conversion] is measurable & painful on a "big repo".

Yes, I do not remember the details, but it must have been around 5-15% speed improvement to prevent the autoCRLF stuff from doing its thing.

At work, we always switch it off, for that reason.

Ciao, Dscho

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