Re: large files and low memory

> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:17, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>>> * Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>> git commit will show what's being commited (the output of "git commit
>>>> --dry-run") in your editor, hence it needs to compute that.
>>>
>>> hmm, is there any way to get around this ?
>>>
>>
>> Try "git commit -q -uno". This should skip creation of summary in the
>> commit message and lookup for untracked files.
>
> To avoid including the summary, the option would be --no-status (-q
> makes commit less verbose in stdout, not in COMMIT_EDITMSG).
>
> But
>
> strace -fe lstat64 git commit -uno --no-status -q
>
> still shows lstat64 for each tracked file in my working tree (even
> when using -m to avoid launching the editor). I don't know if this is
> intended, or just that nobody cared enough to optimize this.