Re: update-index --assume-unchanged doesn't make things go fast

["Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On 6/25/08, Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > 4) My idea is to eventually --assume-unchanged my whole repository,
> > then write a cheesy daemon that uses the Win32 dnotify-equivalent to
> > watch for files that get updated and then selectively
> > --no-assume-unchanged files that it gets notified about.  That would
> > avoid the need to ever synchronously scan the whole repo for changes,
> > thus making my git-Win32 experience much faster and more enjoyable.
> > (This daemon ought to be possible to run on Linux as well, for similar
> > improvements on gigantic repositories.  Also note that TortoiseSVN for
> > Windows does something similar to track file status updates, so this
> > isn't *just* me being crazy.)
>
>  Looks like users on slow NFS would profit, too. Hate to say it, but hg
> feels faster on (slow) NFS than git. Yet I use git, for other reasons ;)

Hmm, can you do dnotify over NFS?

I'd like to know how hg goes any faster.  As far as I can see, git is
going as fast as can be without some kind of daemon or other magic.
(Except for my point #3, which seems relatively minor.)

Thanks,

Avery