Re: [RFC] Add posibility to preload stat information.

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> When entering a git working dir, optionally run a forked process that
> stat all files in the whole workdir and therefore loads stat information
> to RAM which will speedup things like git status and so on.

This is misleading.  You just execute the equivalent of `git status`
everytime I request a prompt inside a git working directory.  And this
is if I'm using __git_ps1() to augment my prompt, which I'm not- I use
ZSH's vcs_info, which is arguably better.  Also, you forgot to say how
to turn on the feature.

That said, this feature is extremely gross; it thrashes my filesystem
and hard drive.  Modern software is written to minimize IO, not
maximize it!  I'm completely against the inclusion of this patch.

However, I would not mind a feature that runs `git status` the very
first time I enter a git working directory: when I enter my clone of
linux.git, it takes my first `git status` invocation a good ten
seconds to complete, and we can fix this pretty easily.