Heya, On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 17:50, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IMHO, the correct answer here is to have an inotify-based daemon prod > at the .git/index automatically when files get updated, so that git > itself doesn't have to stat/readdir through the entire tree in order > to do any of its operations. (Windows also has something like inotify > that would work.) If you had this, then git > status/diff/checkout/commit would be just as fast with zillions of > files as with 10 files. Sooner or later, if nobody implements this, I > promise I'll get around to it since inotify is actually easy to code > for :) >From what I've heard both SVN and Mercurial have something like that and it's incredible unstable and icky and nasty and bad and will eat your babies. Then again, I don't have any experience with inotify, so if you say that it's all good and awesome, who am I to doubt that :). -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- 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