From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:34:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: refresh the index before running diff-files
Message-ID: <20120930203458.GA31365@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <20120930014203.GA10664@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Jeff,

Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:05:27AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Good point. We're getting out of my very limited tcl cargo-culting
> skills now, so I'll let somebody more clueful do that fix.

You might find the following patch and discussion entertaining:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144182

Not my itch, but it was fun to write back then. ;-)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan