On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:17:16PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > So - I didn't see anything out there saying "git is fast because it > uses inotify" or anything like that. Perhaps git would not help me at > all? Because git still needs to stat all the files in the tree? Yes, it does stat all the files. How many files are you talking about, and what platform? From a warm cache on Linux, the 23,000 files kernel repo takes about a tenth of a second to stat all files for me (and this on a several year-old machine). And of course many operations don't require stat'ing at all (like looking at logs, or diffs that don't involve the working tree). -Peff -- 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
