On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:04 PM, David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 21:06 +0100, Christian Couder wrote: >> Using David's series I get worse results than all of the above but I >> guess it's because his series is based on an ancient git version >> (v2.0.0-rc0). > > My more-recent series is on top of 2.4, but (for webkit): > mine: 0m0.206s > duy's: 0m0.107s I tried using your more recent series and I get basically no change compared to the current git (without using untracked cache) on Webkit with around 5600 untracked files. Maybe I am doing something wrong. I compiled watchman and installed it. It is in /usr/local/bin/watchman but I am not sure it is actually being used though I have configured "core.usewatchman" to "true". > However, I'm getting occasional index-helper segfaults due to > istate->last_update being NULL. (I'm using Duy's index-helper branch > from his github + this patchset + a function signature fix due to a > newer version of libwatchman). I haven't looked into why this is -- > maybe accidentally mixing git versions while testing? > > Also, after messing around for a while (on Duy's branch), I ended up in > a state where git status would take ~2.5s every time. The index helper > was alive but evidently not working right. Killing and restarting it > worked. Actually, I think I can repro this more easily: "git rm > Changelog" seems to put the index-helper into this state. Thanks for this. I have also seen strange things happening with the index-helper. When it is working I found that it provides around 10% improvement on git rebase time. -- 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