From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:07:06 GMT
Subject: Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other "non-code" data
Message-ID: <20100518190706.GA2383@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikAoZgvYXN-iGPGjMP-vdgrOuKp3_gJzGYaojec@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:33:35AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:16, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >  1. Use "git commit -q" to avoid wasting time on the commit diff
> >     summary (we should perhaps have a commit.quiet config option for
> >     repos like this where you would almost always want to suppress it).
> 
> Do we respect the .gitattributef and not try to generate the diffstat
> for files that are uncompressable?

No, not to my knowledge. Even the "binary" attribute just says "this
file is binary, don't text diff it". I think we will always still do
rewrite-detection for operations like "git status" and the diff summary
of "git commit".

-Peff