[PATCH RFC] faster dirstate walks

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:26:46PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:56:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > In practice, sorting by file name is almost as good as sorting by
> > inode number if they files have been created in lexicographic order.
> 
> And that would be true when?  It certainly isn't normally the case.

It's the case for checkout, so going in sort order usually does in
fact tend to visit things in creation order, and thereby in disk
layout order.

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