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Revert "Significantly sped up processing of large numbers of directories passed to a single git-annex command."

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This reverts commit 705112903e.

Whoops, git ls-files does not always output in the input ordering.
That's why all this work is needed. Urk.
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Joey Hess 2015-04-02 01:23:43 -04:00
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@ -5,13 +5,9 @@ Feeding git-annex a long list off directories, eg with xargs can have
ls-files command is longer than the git-annex command often, so it gets
truncated and some files are not processed.
> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]
> fixed --[[Joey]]
* It can take a really long time for git-annex to chew through the
git-ls-files results. There is probably an exponential blowup in the time
relative to the number of parameters. Some of the stuff being done to
preserve original ordering etc is likely at fault.
> I think I've managed to speed this up something like
> 1000x or some such. segmentPaths on an utterly insane list of 6 million
> files now runs in about 10 seconds. --[[Joey]]