Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

Florian Weimer
2005-04-27T15:02:08Z

* H. Peter Anvin:

> While you're doing this anyway, you might want to make sure you enable
> -O +dir_index and run fsck -D.

Directory hashing has a negative impact on some applications (notably
tar and unpatched mutt on large Maildir folders). For git, it's a win
because hashing destroys locality anyway.