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Re: [PATCH] gitk: refresh the index before running diff-files

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Sep 30, 2012, 00:05 UTC
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<20120930000527.GB4852@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> +proc refresh_index {} {
> +    global need_index_refresh
> +    if { $need_index_refresh } {
> +	exec sh -c "git update-index --refresh >/dev/null 2>&1 || true"
> +	set need_index_refresh false
> +    }
> +}

Unfortunately this will wait for the git update-index command to complete, making the GUI unresponsive while it executes, and that can take minutes on a large repository (e.g. the linux kernel) on a machine with a slow disk and a cold disk cache. We will need to make the git update-index execute asynchronously.

Paul.
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