[Please don't top-post...] On 2009.05.07 14:48:20 -0400, Bevan Watkiss wrote: > From: Alex Riesen [mailto:raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx] > > 2009/5/7 Bevan Watkiss <bevan.watkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > It's the looking for local changes I'm trying to avoid. Doing a > > > reset still goes over the tree, which isn't helpful. > > > > The stat(2) is slow? Then try setting core.ignoreStat (see manpage > > of git config) to true: git config core.ignorestat true and read > > below. > > Still took 11 minutes. IIRC, to see the effects of core.ignorestat, you need to have updated all files once. So you might need, for example, "git checkout -f HEAD" (not sure if a plain checkout is enough) once first, and then the future "git checkout $something" should be faster. Björn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html