Subject: Re: questions about git-mktree

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:31:52 -0700 (PDT)

Uwe Kleine-König    <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello Jon,
> 
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:41:17PM +1000, Jon Seymour wrote:
> > Thanks for your explanation.
> > 
> > Does git-mktree normalize the sort order of the input or take it as it
> > is? I can see  a case for having it do normalization, if it doesn't
> > already and probably for this to be the default behaviour.

> As git-mktree doesn't exists I cannot answer that question ...

$ ls $(git --exec-path)/git-mktree
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-mktree

Examining mktree.c a bit you can see that there is qsort using
ent_compare in write_tree procedure.  It is not long file: 131 lines.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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