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Re: questions about git-mktree

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 10, 2009, 15:31 UTC
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Uwe Kleine-König    <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> writes:
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> Hello Jon,
> 
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:41:17PM +1000, Jon Seymour wrote:
> > Thanks for your explanation.
> > 
> > Does git-mktree normalize the sort order of the input or take it as it
> > is? I can see  a case for having it do normalization, if it doesn't
> > already and probably for this to be the default behaviour.
> As git-mktree doesn't exists I cannot answer that question ...

$ ls $(git --exec-path)/git-mktree /usr/libexec/git-core/git-mktree

Examining mktree.c a bit you can see that there is qsort using ent_compare in write_tree procedure. It is not long file: 131 lines.

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Message 4 of 16 in “questions about git-mktree”
  1. Jon SeymourMay 10, 2009
  2. Uwe Kleine-KönigMay 10, 2009
  3. A Large Angry SCMMay 10, 2009
  4. Jakub NarebskiMay 10, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2009
  7. 0/6 Modernize mktree somewhatJunio C Hamano, May 10, 2009
  8. 1/6 build-in git-mktreeJunio C Hamano, May 10, 2009
  9. 2/6 mktree: use parse-optionsJunio C Hamano, May 10, 2009
  10. 3/6 builtin-mktree.c: use a helper function to handle one line of inputJunio C Hamano, May 10, 2009
  11. 4/6 mktree: do not barf on a submodule commitJunio C Hamano, May 10, 2009
  12. 5/6 t1010: add mktree testJunio C Hamano, May 10, 2009
  13. 6/6 mktree --missing: allow missing objectsJunio C Hamano, May 10, 2009
  14. René ScharfeMay 10, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 11, 2009
  16. Josh MicichMay 10, 2009

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