From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:43:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make git selectively and conditionally ignore certain stat fields Message-ID: <1620721033.2052381.1358210626868.JavaMail.root@dewire.com> In-Reply-To: <7vy5fv71ad.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> > Is this "the user edits in eclipse and then runs 'git status' from > the > terminal" problem? Yes. Of course not just status, but any command that validates the index. On Unix this is usually bearable, though slow, but on Windows I often see git status take minutes (yes large files...). -- robin