Re: performance problem: "git commit filename"

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

The only issue I know about with using unpack_trees in C as a replacement 
for read-tree in shell is that unpack_trees leaves "deletion" index 
entries in memory which are not written to disk, but may surprise some 
code (these are used to allow -u to remove the files from the working 
tree).

I certainly agree that this patch should be double-checked. I'm pretty 
sure the issue you mention wouldn't be an issue, since the end result is 
only used for actually updating the index and writing it out as a tree 
(both of which should handle the magic zero ce_mode case ok), but it would 
certainly be good to walk through all cases.

			Linus