From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:46:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git and larger trees, not so fast?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708091444550.25146@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708091426050.25146@woody.linux-foundation.org>



On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> So "builtin-read-tree.c" (or rather unpack-trees.c) would need the same 
> kind of logic.

The path seems to be:

  cmd_read_tree ->
    unpack_trees ->
      unpack_trees_rec ->
        [ recursive .. unpack_trees_rec ] ->
	  oneway_merge ->
	    keep_entry ->
	      add_index_entry()

and here again we end up having the same insertion sort issue.

		Linus