From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Peter Eriksen" Subject: Re: Tracking few files among many Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:52:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20051030155243.GA28021@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk> References: <20051030130001.GA26652@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk> <4364E6D7.9010707@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 30 17:13:29 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWFmT-00044b-W0 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:11:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751069AbVJ3QLe (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:11:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751066AbVJ3QLe (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:11:34 -0500 Received: from ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk ([192.38.93.106]:13012 "HELO ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750801AbVJ3QLd (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:11:33 -0500 Received: (qmail 28067 invoked by uid 5842); 30 Oct 2005 15:52:44 -0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4364E6D7.9010707@op5.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:29:27PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Peter Eriksen wrote: > >Hello, > > > >There's something I can't figure out. I'm tracking a few > >configuration files in $HOME, but some operations are really > >slow. Let's take git-status as example: ... > OTOH, since you *know* git-status (precisely because it looks for files > not added to the index) to be slow, you should use git-diff* instead. I > imagine you know what files you're tracking anyways since it's just a > subset of 25000-something. I understand now, I just didn't think about this behavior before. What I could do is add all my files to .gitignore, but that would be insane. Perhaps I was just confused about it calling those files "not tracked". I know, I know, it was changed recently to this exactly because it was confusing before. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Peter