Hello, I was interested in trying out the GIT_WORK_DIR stuff, but ended up being unable to. The thing that stopped me is present in master as well: $ git --version git version 1.5.1.rc3.20.gaa453 $ cd $HOME $ git init $ git add .bashrc At this point the CPU pegs at 100% systime. An strace shows that git is calling lstat64() on every file in my home directory. I killed git before it scanned everything I've ever done. I only want to track one file; is git meant to scan every file in the directory even though I'm not adding any of them? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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