Hi, I compared stating whole tree vs one small subdirectory, and I expected that for the subdirectory status will be very very fast. After all, it has only few files to stat. But it's not fast. Why? With cold cache (echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches): $ time git status > /dev/null real 0m41.670s user 0m0.980s sys 0m2.908s $ time git status -- src/.../somedir > /dev/null real 0m17.380s user 0m0.748s sys 0m0.328s With warm cache: $ time git status > /dev/null real 0m0.792s user 0m0.404s sys 0m0.384s $ time git status -- src/.../somedir > /dev/null real 0m0.335s user 0m0.288s sys 0m0.048s Repository/dir stats: $ find * -type f | wc -l 127189 $ du -shc * | grep total 2.2G total $ find src/.../somedir -type f | wc -l 55 $ du -shc src/.../somedir | grep total 224K total $ git --version git version 1.7.9.rc0.10.gbeecc -- Piotr Krukowiecki -- 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