On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:44:52PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > In other words, it appears that an efficient lstat implementation
> > was not the key factor in this problem. The root cause remains a
> > mystery, but in my case, the solution was to upgrade Git.
>
> If you can reliably trigger the problem by switching versions and you
> are still curious and want to spend a little more time on it, you may
> be able to bisect the fix to solve the mystery.
I was curious, and your issue was easy to replicate, so I bisected it
myself. The fix was:
commit e53e6b4433f264250c2e586167caf61721b0185c
Author: Brian Downing <bdowning@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 10 21:59:07 2010 -0500
unpack-trees: Make index lookahead less pessimal
which went into v1.7.1.1.
-Peff
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