From: Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:52:11 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the difference between `git show branch:file | diff -u - file` vs `git diff branch file`?
Message-ID: <1314096731.15017.2.camel@n900.home.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4E537AF0.9070604@drmicha.warpmail.net>

> Is that a very large tree or a very slow file system?
Tree is large (500k files), file system is irrelevant since all time is spend on CPU.

> Do we enumerate all
> differing files and only then limit diff output by path??

Dunno, that's why I am asking why it is so slow.