From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Oakley Subject: [PATCH] core.ignoreStat is affected by --assume-unchanged misunderstandings Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:48:52 +0000 Message-ID: <1418341733-1656-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Cc: ?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9rgio?= Basto , Duy Nguyen , Johannes Sixt , Johannes Schindelin To: GitList , Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 12 00:48:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzDTd-0002mU-U0 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:48:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964850AbaLKXsw (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:48:52 -0500 Received: from out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.243]:53450 "EHLO out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933361AbaLKXsv (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:48:51 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoQbAMksilROl3QYPGdsb2JhbABZgwUBAVGDDbRojkoPhWgEAoEVFwEBAQEBAQUBAQEBODuEaRgLGIECCgYBEwEtiBUJ2BwoBI9yhDAFhCQCjReWZIQOPoJzAQEB X-IPAS-Result: AoQbAMksilROl3QYPGdsb2JhbABZgwUBAVGDDbRojkoPhWgEAoEVFwEBAQEBAQUBAQEBODuEaRgLGIECCgYBEwEtiBUJ2BwoBI9yhDAFhCQCjReWZIQOPoJzAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,560,1413241200"; d="scan'208";a="124089458" Received: from host-78-151-116-24.as13285.net (HELO localhost) ([78.151.116.24]) by out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net with ESMTP; 11 Dec 2014 23:48:48 +0000 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.4.msysgit.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A recent thread on the Msysgit mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/d9CltDxx11g noted the config core.ignoreStat flag as a solution to slow performance on Windows 8.1 for their system. This config flag uses the --assume-unchanged flag to speed up systems with slow lstat(2) calls. Just like the regular --assume-changed documentation, this need some tweaking to be clear that it is not a "poor man's .gitignore". Philip Oakley (1): doc: core.ignoreStat clarify the --assume-unchanged effect Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 1.9.4.msysgit.0