Hi Alex, On Wed, 25 Oct 2017, Alex Vandiver wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > This is super expensive, as it means a full-blown new process instead of > > just a simple environment variable expansion. > > > > The idea behind using `PWD` instead was that Git will already have done > > all of the work of figuring out the top-level directory and switched to > > there before calling the fsmonitor hook. > > I'm not seeing that PWD has been at all altered. No, PWD is not altered. But a simple environment variable expansion (fast) was replaced by spawning to `git rev-parse --show-top-level` (slow, ~60ms on Windows). *That* is expensive. Ciao, Johannes
