slow git-cherry-pick.

Hi,

i've recently reinstalled a fresh system (fc20-beta) on my workstation and observing a big slowdown on git cherry-pick operation (git-1.8.4.2-1). the previous centos installation with an old git version works faster (few seconds per cherry pick). now the same operation takes >1 min.

my git repo isn't very big[1] but it's checked out on the linear lvm where random i/o generally hurts and strace shows that current git version performs 2x{lstat}+1x{open,read,close} [2] on whole checkout before cherry-pick. there is also a .gitattributes searching on all levels which doing another tons of i/o. looks like git-status on action but why on whole repo while cherry-pick touches limited set of files?

is it a bug or feature?

BR, Paweł.

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[1] $ du -sh .git/objects/ 4.2G .git/objects/ $ find sources -type f|wc -l 9536 $ find buildenv -type f|wc -l 14637

[2] lstat("buildenv/boost-1.51.0/include/boost/bimap.hpp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=387, ...}) = 0 lstat("buildenv/boost-1.51.0/include/boost/bimap.hpp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=387, ...}) = 0 open("buildenv/boost-1.51.0/include/boost/bimap.hpp", O_RDONLY) = 5 read(5, "// Boost.Bimap\n//\n// Copyright ("..., 387) = 387 close(5)