On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes, we could definitely skip the re-lookup if we had a "don't really > care, I can recreate the object myself" flag (ie anybody who is going to > write that object) Side note: with "alternates" files, you might well *always* have the objects. If you do git clone -l -s ... to create various branches, and then pull between them, you'll actually end up in the situation that you'll always find the objects and get back to the really expensive case.. Linus - 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