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Tracking few files among many

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PEPeter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date
Oct 30, 2005, 13:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20051030130001.GA26652@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk>
Hello,

There's something I can't figure out. I'm tracking a few configuration files in $HOME, but some operations are really slow. Let's take git-status as example:

~ > git-status >laaangsom.txt ~ > wc -l laaangsom.txt 25875 laaangsom.txt ~ > cat laaangsom.txt # # Changed but not updated: # (use git-update-index to mark for commit) # # modified: .gaim/blist.xml # modified: .gaim/prefs.xml # modified: .mozilla/firefox/s4q22693.default/prefs.js # # # Untracked files: # (use "git add" to add to commit) # # [ A lot of untracked files. See the line count above. ]

What is going on? This really doesn't seem like the wanted behavior. Have I missed something? I'm using 46774a81f9d6ca4d230d33757afe9dd07bfe398b (GIT 0.99.9).

Regards,
Peter
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