Pieter de Bie <pdebie@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 19 apr 2008, at 23:54, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > And yes, most of the time in "git status ." is going to be the lstat() > > calls. Which are expensive on OS X. And yes, we do too many of them. > > I'll > > look at seeing if we can avoid some. > > I just tested this. "git status ." does 428815 (400k!) lstats, almost > 10x as many as there are files in the repository. I'd agree that this > is the reason it's slow on OS X :). By the way, what version of git do you use? Because in RelNotes for 1.5.5 there is: * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary anymore. which I guess also apply to git status. This change was written by Linus if I remember correctly... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
