From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git commit scanning entire working tree? Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:12:50 -0800 Message-ID: <7vvdr98rkd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <2729632a0902161458m732af362od59e5f35af5643c3@mail.gmail.com> <7vwsbpewkl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <2729632a0902161937o4ac3a1aeg143dda509ba5e384@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: skillzero@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 17 08:14:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LZKA7-0002hS-GV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:14:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751288AbZBQHM7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751252AbZBQHM5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:57 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:38966 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbZBQHM5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:57 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25CC99384; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0D79099383; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <2729632a0902161937o4ac3a1aeg143dda509ba5e384@mail.gmail.com> (skillzero@gmail.com's message of "Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:37:57 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 659DFAD6-FCC2-11DD-A787-0433C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: skillzero@gmail.com writes: > ... However, it would > eliminate information (changed/untracked files outside that path), if > people are relying on that. People do rely on that information. Why else we would spend cycles to show them? There is a precedence to allow a configuration variable to skip various computation to help slow systems, e.g. 6c2ce04 (Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files, 2008-06-05).