On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 03:08:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 ;-) Yes, I should be more careful with what I promise. :) I agree very much that we should reserve that right. -Peff -- 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