On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > While the last statement applies to other parts of the system, it is > not true for the in-core index design. We always had a flat index, > and it is not cheating at all. The original "tree" was also a flat > representation of everything under the sun, and hierarchical tree > objects came much later.
To some degree that revalidates my interpretation of Andreas' statements. If I understand it correctly eacht time a shell command is executed, which requires tree interaction, the corresponding tree is read from filesystem to memory completely before anything is done? So if I git-add a file, the whole index is read first, then the memory object is changed and then the resulting change is written to disk bottom-up from the point of view of the tree? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
