Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Anyway, my point is that we don't even have to talk about "reasonable" > or "absurd". Git should be fast even on absurd cases,... I agree with you 98%. If we can make Git fast even on "absurd" cases without penalizing less extreme and boring cases and/or maintainability of the code, we should strive to do so. And I think the codepaths mentioned in this thread falls into that category. The remaining 2% is only to allow me to say that we reserve the right to label cases "absurd" when it is extremely painful to support without penalizing the code and performance of less extreme and boring cases ;-) -- 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