Re: [PATCH] status: hint the user about -uno if read_directory takes too long

> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
> 
>> Thanks, that looks good to me:
>>
>> # It took 2.58 seconds to enumerate untracked files.
>> # Consider the -u option for a possible speed-up?
>>
>> But:
>> If I follow the advice as is given and use "git status -u", the result is the same.
> 
> Yeah, that was taken from
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/215820/focus=218125
> 
> to which I said something about "more levels of indirections".  This
> episode shows that even a user who was very well aware of the issue
> did not follow a single level of indirection.
> 
>> If I think loud, would it be better to say:
>>
>> # It took 2.58 seconds to search for untracked files.
>> # Consider the -uno option for a possible speed-up?
>>
>> or
>>
>> # It took 2.58 seconds to search for untracked files.
>> # Consider the -u option for a possible speed-up?
>> # Please see git help status
> 
> The former actively hurts the users, but the latter would be good,
> given that your documentation updates clarifies the trade off.
> 
> Or we can be more explicit and say
> 
> # It took 2.58 seconds to search for untracked files.  'status -uno'
> # may speed it up, but you have to be careful not to forget to add
> # new files yourself (see 'git help status').
>