Am 13.02.2014 00:03, schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:00:19PM +0100, Karsten Blees wrote: >> Am 12.02.2014 04:43, schrieb Duy Nguyen: >>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:54:51PM -0800, Stefan Zager wrote: >>>>> We in the chromium project have a keen interest in adding threading to >>>>> git in the pursuit of performance for lengthy operations (checkout, >>>>> status, blame, ...). Our motivation comes from hitting some >>>>> performance walls when working with repositories the size of chromium >>>>> and blink: >>>> +1 from Gentoo on performance improvements for large repos. >>>> >>>> The main repository in the ongoing Git migration project looks to be in >>>> the 1.5GB range (and for those that want to propose splitting it up, we >>>> have explored that option and found it lacking), with very deep history >>>> (but no branches of note, and very few tags). >>> >>> From v1.9 shallow clone should work for all push/pull/clone... so >>> history depth does not matter (on the client side). As for >>> gentoo-x86's large worktree, using index v4 and avoid full-tree >>> operations (e.g. "status .", not "status"..) should make all >>> operations reasonably fast. I plan to make "status" fast even without >>> path limiting with the help of inotify, but that's not going to be >>> finished soon. Did I miss anything else? >>> >> >> Regarding git-status on msysgit, enable core.preloadindex and core.fscache (as of 1.8.5.2). >> >> There's no inotify on Windows, and I gave up using ReadDirectoryChangesW to >> keep fscache up to date, as it _may_ report DOS file names (e.g. C:\PROGRA~1 >> instead of C:\Program Files). > > You can use GetLongPathNameW to get the latter from the former. > > Mike > Except if its a delete or rename notification...my final ReadDirectoryChangesW version cached the files by their long _and_ short names, but was so complex that it slowed most commands down rather than speeding them up :-) -- 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