"Edward Ned Harvey" <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I see things all over the Internet saying git is fast. I'm > currently struggling with poor svn performance and poor attitude of > svn developers, so I'd like to consider switching to git. A quick > question first. > > The core of the performance problem I'm facing is the need to "walk > the tree" for many thousand files. Every time I do "svn update" or > "svn status" the svn client must stat every file to check for local > modifications (a coffee cup or a beer worth of stats). In essence, > this is unavoidable if there is no mechanism to constantly monitor > filesystem activity during normal operations. Analogous to > filesystem journaling. > > 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? http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitBenchmarks While it should be possible to use 'assume unchanged' bit together with inotify / icron, it is not something tha is done; IIRC Mercurial had Linux-only InotifyPlugin... -- 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
