Re: [Gnu-arch-users] larger trees slowing down

[Dustin Sallings]

On Jan 27, 2004, at 12:49, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> I think it's essentially because Arch permits renames.  We have to make
> sure that we modify the right file, and in order to do that, we do a
> whole-tree inventory, to find out the id -> filepath mapping.  That's
> how we make sure that we're modifying the correct file.
>
> Chris Mason has been looking at improving this performance by reducing
> the need for whole-tree inventories.  See this thread:
>
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-12/ 
> threads.html#00753

	I suppose this makes sense for ``foreign'' patches, or cherry picking  
or whatever, but it doesn't make much sense at all in the case of a  
get.  Any rename is going to be done by the patch itself, and all  
subsequent patches will use the new name.

	I don't plan on doing a get on this tree very frequently, so I'll just  
wait to see if anything good comes of this in the meantime.

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Dustin Sallings