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Re: Tracking few files among many

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PEPeter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date
Oct 30, 2005, 15:52 UTC
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<20051030155243.GA28021@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk>
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:29:27PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> Peter Eriksen wrote:
> >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: 
...
> OTOH, since you *know* git-status (precisely because it looks for files 
> not added to the index) to be slow, you should use git-diff* instead. I 
> imagine you know what files you're tracking anyways since it's just a 
> subset of 25000-something.

I understand now, I just didn't think about this behavior before. What I could do is add all my files to .gitignore, but that would be insane.

Perhaps I was just confused about it calling those files "not tracked". I know, I know, it was changed recently to this exactly because it was confusing before.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Peter
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  1. Peter EriksenOct 30, 2005
  2. Andreas EricssonOct 30, 2005
  3. Peter EriksenOct 30, 2005

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