From: Russell King Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:38:31 GMT Subject: Re: Is cogito really this inefficient Message-ID: <20050714083831.B26322@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:51:30PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Russell King wrote: > > > This says it all. 1min 22secs to generate a patch from a locally > > modified but uncommitted file. > > I only get that when the index is out-of-date WRT the file modification > dates, so cg-diff has to examine every file. > > The good news is that the index is being updated as it finds that the > files are in sync, so expect this to be significantly faster the next time > around. It isn't. First time it was 1min11, second time _immediately_ after it was 1min22. See my reply to Linus. Oddly, show-diff seemed to be a lot more efficient in previous git revisions. -- Russell King