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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why so much time in the kernel?
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Jon Smirl wrote:

> Is it a crazy idea to read the cvs files, compute an sha1 on each
> expanded delta and then write the delta straight into a pack file?

That's what parsecvs does (i.e. read *,v files directly).
See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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