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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:54:15 -0400
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I wonder if there is some way to only load the crazy curl stuff when we 
> actually want open a http: connection.

Well, we could use dlopen(), but I'm not sure that qualifies as a
_sane_ solution --- especially given that there are approximately 15
interfaces used by git, that we'd have to resolve using dlsym().

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