On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm.. can you do the counting separately? A shared cache_entry must
> have its field "index" greater than zero. By counting the number of
> entries whose index is zero (i.e. not shared) against the total number
> of real (*) entries, you should have a decent estimate when to split.
> Then you can do exactly what "git update-index --no-split-index" and
> "git update-index --split-index" sequence does, but in write_index().
> It's easier than messing inside split-index.c. If we hit performance
> problem, then we can look into changing split-index.c

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion. I will try it.

> (*) remember that some entries may be marked CE_REMOVE, which are dead
> entries and should not be counted because they will never be written
> down on disk.
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