Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> Using git 1.5.6.64.g85fe, but this applies to various other versions >> I've tried. >> >> I have a git repo with about 17000+ files in 1000+ directories. In >> Linux, "git status" runs in under a second, which is perfectly fine. >> But on Windows, which can apparently only stat() about 1000 files per >> second, "git status" takes at least 17 seconds to run, even with a hot >> cache. (I've confirmed that stat() is so slow on Windows by writing a >> simple program that just runs stat() in a tight loop. The slowness >> may be cygwin-related, as I found some direct Win32 calls that seem to >> go more than twice as fast... which is still too slow.) > > Which git version do you use? Does it have the following configuration > variable (also available as command option): > > status.showUntrackedFiles:: > By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show > files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which > contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name > only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all > all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some > systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays > the untracked files. Possible values are: > > - 'no' - Show no untracked files > - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories > - 'all' - Shows also individual files in untracked directories. That's on 'master' progressing forward to eventually become 1.6.0. -- 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
