From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 19:56:09 GMT
Subject: Re:
Message-ID: <20090507195609.GA17395@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <D47BEC5B0D55467894A05B6219127126@caottdt504>

[Please don't top-post...]

On 2009.05.07 14:48:20 -0400, Bevan Watkiss wrote:
> From: Alex Riesen [mailto:raa.lkml@gmail.com] 
> > 2009/5/7 Bevan Watkiss <bevan.watkiss@cloakware.com>:
> > > It's the looking for local changes I'm trying to avoid.  Doing a
> > > reset still goes over the tree, which isn't helpful.
> > 
> > The stat(2) is slow? Then try setting core.ignoreStat (see manpage
> > of git config) to true: git config core.ignorestat true and read
> > below.
>
> Still took 11 minutes.

IIRC, to see the effects of core.ignorestat, you need to have updated
all files once. So you might need, for example, "git checkout -f HEAD"
(not sure if a plain checkout is enough) once first, and then the future
"git checkout $something" should be faster.

Björn