From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: update-index --assume-unchanged doesn't make things go fast Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:38:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <32541b130806250944x717cf609x7aa520c77a7c6911@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 25 19:39:35 2008 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 1KBYxx-0004Zt-LP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:39:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752295AbYFYRii (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:38:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751981AbYFYRii (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:38:38 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34066 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752124AbYFYRih (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:38:37 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KBYwx-00081s-NZ for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:38:32 +0000 Received: from whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.44.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:38:31 +0000 Received: from michaeljgruber+gmane by whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:38:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) In-Reply-To: <32541b130806250944x717cf609x7aa520c77a7c6911@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Avery Pennarun venit, vidit, dixit 25.06.2008 18:44: ... > 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 ;) Michael