Clemens Buchacher venit, vidit, dixit 30.07.2011 19:00: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: >> >>> With your permission I am stealing your commit message. >> >> I don't care about the message but don't see the point of this patch. >> Using the same message certainly won't explain the difference... > > Well, to be fair I did add to your message, explaining what I did. > > The point of providing a prefix at all is performance optimization. > If you say there is no common prefix for the files of interest, > then you cannot leave any files out and you have to read the entire > tree into the index. > > But even if we cannot use the working directory as a prefix, we can > still figure out if there is a common prefix for all given paths, > and use that instead. I merely copied that idea from ls-tree. > That's the kind of explanation that I meant. Thanks. Michael > And considering that most of my patch the almost verbatim move of a > function from one file to another, I think my change is not that > big: > >>> 4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) > > Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html