From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:41:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/16] Sparse-index: integrate with status
Message-ID: <CABPp-BHP_jbQQX=5XRF3fVYvDGBsvWpuXeFg0RFePD47L_8U8w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqim1cvdh6.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 1:37 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This is the first "payoff" series in the sparse-index work. It makes 'git
> > status' very fast when a sparse-index is enabled on a repository with
> > cone-mode sparse-checkout (and a small populated set).
>
> The first payoff turning out to be  a long time coming ;-)

True, but much, much less time than it took between when I started the
merge machinery overhaul and its first big payoffs.  ;-)