On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > - the name diff_free_filespec_data_large is horrible, but this is based > > on the fact that diff_free_filespec_data actually does too much (it > > frees the data _and_ some other auxiliary data). And renaming that > > would entail changing many callsites. > > True. But we can rename it to diff_file_filespec_blob() and > that would perfectly well describe what it does. Will do so > when applying if it is Ok to you. Well, that renaming apparently never happened, and it's still called diff_free_filespec_data_large() now that it's in master. That said, I think this patch should make it into the maintenance branch too, renamed or not, since it's such a huge performance issue. 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