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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>,  Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-diff in a worktree is an order of magnitude slower?
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:24:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfr2f7iay.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260621174518.GB2206349@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:45:18 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I don't know if any of this is really worth digging too far. This feels
> like a case we could do a bit better at, but I wonder how much it
> matters in practice. As soon as you do any index-refresh (including "git
> status"), the racy entries are cleared and everything is faster. It
> just seems kind of lame that we write out the initial working tree with
> so many racy entries.

Yeah, We didn't want to stall for a full second back when we were
not using subsecond in anywhere, with nanosecond resolution
timestamps in place, we could delay writing the index file by 50
milliseconds, nobody notices the delay, and raciness would go away,
perhaps?

  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-21 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-08 23:36 git-diff in a worktree is an order of magnitude slower? D. Ben Knoble
2026-06-09  0:11 ` Jeff King
2026-06-09 17:15   ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-06-11  8:55     ` Jeff King
2026-06-11 17:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-11 21:06         ` brian m. carlson
2026-06-20 15:57       ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-06-21  0:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-21  3:58           ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-21 17:24           ` Jeff King
2026-06-21 17:45             ` Jeff King
2026-06-21 20:24               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-06-21 21:28                 ` Jeff King
2026-06-21 23:17                   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-21 21:39               ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-21 22:00                 ` Jeff King

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