Re: git-index-pack really does suck..

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