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Subject: Re: git status: small difference between stating whole repository
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Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> ...  If my memory of pack organization serves
> right, the commit objects involved would essentially be spread across
> the whole pack

No they are crumped together in a contiguous section in a packfile, so
that "git log" without any pathspec can go faster without consulting tree
objects.