On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > +proc refresh_index {} { > + global need_index_refresh > + if { $need_index_refresh } { > + exec sh -c "git update-index --refresh >/dev/null 2>&1 || true" > + set need_index_refresh false > + } > +} Unfortunately this will wait for the git update-index command to complete, making the GUI unresponsive while it executes, and that can take minutes on a large repository (e.g. the linux kernel) on a machine with a slow disk and a cold disk cache. We will need to make the git update-index execute asynchronously. Paul. -- 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