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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Using git 1.5.6.64.g85fe, but this applies to various other versions
>> I've tried.
>> 
>> I have a git repo with about 17000+ files in 1000+ directories.  In
>> Linux, "git status" runs in under a second, which is perfectly fine.
>> But on Windows, which can apparently only stat() about 1000 files per
>> second, "git status" takes at least 17 seconds to run, even with a hot
>> cache.  (I've confirmed that stat() is so slow on Windows by writing a
>> simple program that just runs stat() in a tight loop.  The slowness
>> may be cygwin-related, as I found some direct Win32 calls that seem to
>> go more than twice as fast... which is still too slow.)
>
> Which git version do you use? Does it have the following configuration
> variable (also available as command option):
>
>   status.showUntrackedFiles::
>         By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show
>         files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which
>         contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name
>         only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
>         all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
>         systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays
>         the untracked files. Possible values are:
>
>         - 'no'     - Show no untracked files
>         - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories
>         - 'all'    - Shows also individual files in untracked directories.

That's on 'master' progressing forward to eventually become 1.6.0.