On 13.10.2017 15:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Yeah, but perhaps Git could be smarter when rev-listing too and avoid
processing files or directories it has already seen?
Aren't you suggesting to optimize for a wrong case?
Anything that is possible with a software should be considered as a
possible usecase. It's in fact a DoS attack. Imagine there's a server
that using git to process something, and now there's a way to knock down
this server. It's also bad from a promotional stand point.
