Re: git and larger trees, not so fast?

[moe <moe-git@mbox.bz>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, moe wrote:
> > 
> > here's a test-case (should be safe to
> > copy/paste on linux, bash):
> 
> moe: with current git (and thus the 1.5.3 release), the "git status" 
> commands now take half a second for me, and the git commit takes just 
> under a second.
> 
> The *initial* commit that adds everything still takes almost 5 seconds, 
> but that was due to generating the diffstat summary - with a "-q" on the 
> commit line that too drops down to just under a second.
> 
> In fact, the only thing that took more than a second for me with the 
> current git is that initial "git add .", which took 1.791s for me. 
> Considering that it had to hash all the 100,000 objects, I'm not 
> surprised.
> 
> Anyway, it would be good if you re-did your real work tree with current 
> commit, just to verify. You have slower hardware than I do, but hopefully 
> it is now just about as fast as it can be.
 
hi linus,

thx for your efforts, the figures look very promising.
i'm out of town right now but will test when i get
stationary internet again (sometime tomorrow evening
i think).


regards, moe