From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:44:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add posibility to preload stat information.
Message-ID: <7vtxo4byng.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87vc8lyqz7.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> I think it would actually be a somewhat interesting feature if it
> interacted with GIT_PS1_SHOW*.  If you use these settings (I personally
> use SHOWDIRTYSTATE but not SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES), the prompt hangs while
> __git_ps1 runs git-status.  It should be possible to run a git-status
> process in the background when entering a repository, and displaying
> some marker ('??' maybe) in the prompt instead of the dirty-state info
> until git-status has finished.

This is somewhat interesting.

Perhaps we can introduce a helper binary that does what __git_ps1()
does, with a --timeout=500ms option to say "I dunno (yet)", and keep
priming the well in the background when it takes more than the
specified amount of time?