Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> The possible options are: >>> + >>> - - 'no' - Show no untracked files >>> + - 'no' - Show no untracked files (this is fastest) >> >> There is a trade-off around the use of -uno between safety and >> performance. The default is not to use -uno so that you will not >> forget to add a file you newly created (i.e safety). You would pay >> for the safety with the cost to find such untracked files (i.e. >> performance). >> >> I suspect that the documentation was written with the assumption >> that at least for the people who are reading this part of the >> documentation, the trade-off is obvious. In order to find more >> information, you naturally need to spend more cycles. >> >> If the trade-off is not so obvious, however, I do not object at all >> to describing it. But if we are to do so, I do object to mentioning >> only one side of the trade-off. People who choose "fastest" needs >> to be made very aware that they are disabling "safety". > > On the topic of trading off, I was thinking about new -uauto as > default that is like -uall if it takes less than a certan amount of > time (e.g. 0.5 seconds), if it exceeds that limit, the operation is > aborted (i.e. it turns to -uno). The safety net is still there, "git > status" advices to use -u to show full information. Ugh, this is too opaque; the user has no idea whether untracked files are being counted or not. > Or a less intrusive approach: measure the time and advice the user to > (read doc and) use -uno. I just learnt about -uno myself, from this thread. At best, it's a stopgap until we get inotify support. > But it's probably worth waiting for the first cut of inotify support > from Ram. It's better with inotify anyway. This is quite urgent in my opinion. One of git's primary tasks is to quickly tell me what changed in the repository, and inotify is the perfect way to do this. I'll try to get the first cut out quickly, so we can immediately correct any fundamental design flaws. -- 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