Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Pal-Kristian Engstad wrote: > >> Improve git-p4 submit performance on newer (from 2009.2) Perforce >> servers by changing "p4 diff -du" to "p4 diff -dub". This change is >> harmless since the output is only used for display purposes. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pal-Kristian Engstad <pal_engstad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Why is the b flag impacting performance? That's a very good question. The release notes say that they've been changing how 'p4 diff -du' works, but the net effect of it all is that it stats all files in the whole working set. For large projects, this takes forever. We say pauses of 3 minutes per submit... > And even if for display purposes, why might you wish not to see > differences in whitespace changes? That's a good point, but what alternative is there? PKE -- Pål-Kristian Engstad (engstad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx), Lead Graphics & Engine Programmer, Naughty Dog, Inc., 1601 Cloverfield Blvd, 6000 North, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA. Ph.: (310) 633-9112. "Emacs would be a far better OS if it was shipped with a halfway-decent text editor." -- Slashdot, Dec 13. 2005. -- 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