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Re: update-index --assume-unchanged doesn't make things go fast

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2008, 18:51 UTC
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On 6/27/08, Dana How <danahow@gmail.com> wrote:
> It sounds sane to me b/c I had the same reaction to this discussion.
>  You mean "all the files in the _worktree_" ?
>  You would use e.g. inotify on all the directories except .git?
>  This would be very helpful with an extremely large number of files.

Yes, that's the idea. In Win32, it would use something other than inotify, but otherwise it should work about the same.

Avery
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