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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Alternatively, you could construct fake trees like this:
>
> README/1.1.1.1
> README/1.2
> README/1.3
> ...
>
> i.e. every file becomes a directory -- containing all the versions of that 
> file -- in the (virtual) tree, which you can point to by a temporary ref.

That would not play well with the packing heuristics, I suspect.
If you reverse it to use rev/file-id, then the same files from
different revs would sort closer, though.