Re: Possible --remove-empty bug

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2006-03-18 17:40:12
"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:

> On 3/13/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>>
>> However, to be honest, the only reason to ever use --remove-empty is for
>> rename detection, and Frederik's approach of doing that through the
>> library interface directly is actually a much superior option. So we might
>> as well drop the compilcation of --remove-empty entirely, unless somebody
>> has already started using it.
>
> In case of a rather recent file --remove-empty option gives a good
> speed up in history loading with git-rev-list. So qgit uses that
> option.

So you _do_ use it, and I think I still have that remove-empty
stuff held back in "next" branch.  Should I unleash it?

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