On Sun, 6 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > This reduces the memory pressure when dealing with many paths. > > An unscientific test of running "diff-tree --stat --summary -M" > between v2.6.19 and v2.6.20-rc1 in the linux kernel repository > indicates that the number of minor faults are reduced by 2/3 > (153k vs 49k). > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> > --- > > * This is still a WIP, not in the sense that it breaks anything > (it doesn't seem to), but in the sense that it is not known > if it is useful in general and would make that much of a > difference with a project much larger than the kernel. This can only be good. People are really starting to use Git with gigantic repos on limited memory hardware. Nicolas - 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