Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:45:22PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: >> > When entering a git working dir, optionally run a forked process that >> > stat all files in the whole workdir and therefore loads stat information >> > to RAM which will speedup things like git status and so on. >> >> This is misleading. You just execute the equivalent of `git status` >> everytime I request a prompt inside a git working directory. And this >> is if I'm using __git_ps1() to augment my prompt, which I'm not- I use >> ZSH's vcs_info, which is arguably better. Also, you forgot to say how >> to turn on the feature. > > The invokation place is quesionable (Junio also had some thoughts about > that). I don't find vcs_info in the contrib/completition/. Do you have > any suggestion about where the best way is to inwoke this kind of thing? I think it should be a separate script in contrib/ that people can just `eval` in their shell configs; zsh has a chpwd() function for example, which seems like the right place to put such a thing. > I added documentation about how to turn the feature on, in the same way > the other features is documented. (Is there an other way/better way I > should do this?) No, I meant in the commit message. >> That said, this feature is extremely gross; it thrashes my filesystem >> and hard drive. Modern software is written to minimize IO, not >> maximize it! I'm completely against the inclusion of this patch. > > It's extremly gross. I don't like this, _but_ it does speed up my work. > I'm unsure if it should be included in git though (hence the RFC-tag). Yes, I would certainly like my git startup time to be improved. But I don't want to trade my hard drive's life for it. >> However, I would not mind a feature that runs `git status` the very >> first time I enter a git working directory: when I enter my clone of >> linux.git, it takes my first `git status` invocation a good ten >> seconds to complete, and we can fix this pretty easily. > > That's the problem I try to solve. However "the first time" is > irrelevant. We will run git status a bit before we need it. If we enter > linux.git, do other work (in an other project) for an hour and go back > to linux.git our cache will probably be empty. We will need to run this > more than "the first time". But still, we don't want it to run too > often. (Which is does now). What I meant by "first time" is "chpwd() into the git repository, not further chpwd()s when already inside the git repository". -- 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