From: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking few files among many
Message-ID: <20051030155243.GA28021@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk>
In-Reply-To: <4364E6D7.9010707@op5.se>

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:29:27PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 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