Git tree object storing policy

Hello,

now tree object is a simple list of <attributes, hash, name>sorted by name (tricky sorted, cause we assuming that directory name "$X" is actually "$X/" in comparison function). The problem is, that if I want to insert 10k files in empty git repository on / folder there will be 10k new trees with sizes from (1 to 10k)*(hash+name+attribute)+eps .

itroot@localhost ~/tmp> cat git-test.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash

git init test cd test for i in `seq 1 10000` do touch ${i} ; git add ${i} ; git commit -m "Add ${i}" ; done cd .. du -hs test itroot@localhost ~/tmp>

itroot@localhost ~/tmp> ./git-test.sh ... 180M test itroot@localhost ~/tmp>

180 MB!!!?? and 7.4M after `git gc` - thanks to delta compression!

Ok, you can say that this example is artificial, and I can add 10k files with 1 commit. Thats true. But manipulating files in big tree objects (in a big directories) is storage-expensive, and if I need to store a lot of files in one directory and frequently change them - git just don't scales now properly at this use-case.

What do I propose? We can add another git object, named for example "btree" , that contains another "btree" objects or files. This will be a simple btree structure (tree entries sorted practically by name, BTW, maybe it's time to fix sorting =] ), that allows us to do insertion, removal, search in ln(n) time. But - we do not have troubles with big direcories now. BTW, if all directories are small, btree will be tree-like - just btree pointing to files. So, one big tree with 10k files transforms to (hmm, for example...) 101 btrees - one, pointing to 100 btrees, and thay points to files. (100 entries per btree is a wild guess =) )

Suggestions?