Re: speed of git reset -- file

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

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Jeff King wrote:
> Yeah, it is going to be painful on a cold cache. But I wonder whether
> your workflow would really permit the "reset" thing to make a
> difference. That is, are you doing "git reset -- file" from a cold
> cache, and then doing _nothing_ else with git? Because while yes, it may
> be annoying for the "reset" to take 30 seconds, it's warming the cache
> so that the subsequent "diff" or "status" will take 29.1 seconds less.
> 
> Which isn't to say I'm not sympathetic to the performance problems of
> large repos on a cold cache. But I'm not sure there's really a way
> around that. You're going to want to see the stat information eventually
> if you are doing anything meaningful with git, and once it's loaded, the
> warm cache delay isn't too bad. Trying to avoid it seems like a losing
> battle.

Could be true in general. While I've gotten the reset out of this
workflow (realized I could just `git checkout HEAD file` and that would
also clear staged changes), in this case it was actually *unlikely* that
the cache would be unused, as I was resetting to throw unwanted changes
away.

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