Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Tony Finch wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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I suspect the old newton-raphson patches we had (Discussions and patches
back in April 2007 on this list) could be resurrected pretty easily.

That sounds interesting, but I can't find the thread you are referring to.
Do you have a URL or a subject I can feed to Google?

Some googling found this:

	http://marc.info/?l=git&m=117537594112450&w=2

but what got merged (half a year later) was a much fancier thing by Junio. 
See sha1-lookup.c.

That original "single iteration of newton-raphson" patch was buggy, but 
it's perhaps interesting as a concept patch.

		Linus