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Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Linus Torvalds:
>> I wonder why those "git-update-index" calls seem to be (assuming I read 
>> the perl correctly) done only a few files at a time. We can do a hundreds 
>> in one go, but it seems to want to do just ten files or something at the 
>> same time.
>
> No, fifty.
>
> I simply was too lazy to count the actual filenames' lengths. ;-)

I think cvsimport predates that option, but these days that loop
can be optimized by feeding --index-info from standard input.