Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This seems to be a performance-only fix, ... Hmph, then the proposed log message is phrased in a slightly misleading way. I took that "should not" below ... > Sparse directory entries represent a directory that is outside the > sparse-checkout definition. These are not paths to blobs, so should not > be added to the name_hash table as they must never be queried. ... to be saying that we would find something we should not find when querying the name_hash table if we didn't omit them, and the change is done for correctness. Thanks for a quick review. Very much appreciated.