On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:30:24PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > 2. Even when it does work, it's really slow. The pathspec > code is not optimized for huge numbers of paths. Here's > the same case without the ulimit: > > $ time git add -p drivers > No changes. > > real 0m16.559s > user 0m53.140s > sys 0m0.220s By the way, I wondered how we managed to consume more CPU than wall-clock time. I think the answer is that diff-files does the pathspec matching during the threaded preload stage. -Peff