Junio C Hamano wrote on 13.5.2009 21:48:
If you allow people to record otherwise exactly the same tree object in different encoding, like you seem to have in mind, subtree comparision based on the object name will not work and you will end up always traversing down to the tip, because you won't know if your subtrees need filename iconv until you recurse into them and actually take a look.
Could you please educate me, that which operations depend on "doing subtree comparisons based on the object name", and in about which files/functions those comparisons are done? Also, do you mean by "object name" the SHA1 of the object, the filename of a file/directory, or something else? I'd like to know, which parts of the code I should read, to get a better mental model on how Git works.
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