Re: 'git status' on NFS performance regression in 1.7.0

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

James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> writes:

> I noticed that 'git status' in version 1.7.0 is much slower than in 1.6.2.5
> on large work trees on NFS - averaging ~13 seconds runtime vs. ~2 seconds.
> I did a bit of debugging and found that 'git status' apparently doesn't use
> the multi-threaded preload_index any more, although some other commands
> like diff still use it.  Was it intentionally dropped from 'git status'?

There might be subtle breakage for doing this, but it would be worth a try
;-)

 builtin-commit.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 55676fd..71f81c9 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c
@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (*argv)
 		s.pathspec = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
 
-	read_cache();
+	read_cache_preload();
 	refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, s.pathspec, NULL, NULL);
 	s.is_initial = get_sha1(s.reference, sha1) ? 1 : 0;
 	s.in_merge = in_merge;