From: Stefan Zager <szager@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:15:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe
Message-ID: <CAHOQ7J-uHmUgepV+0rDkUgHSQzXJHME2yd8ZOz3bPy0x8k_ejA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AStrZBtSqRiwBtonfW5y0ar=9Z371fE2Krwj=P-w7ERw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From v1.9 shallow clone should work for all push/pull/clone... so
> history depth does not matter (on the client side). As for
> gentoo-x86's large worktree, using index v4 and avoid full-tree
> operations (e.g. "status .", not "status"..) should make all
> operations reasonably fast. I plan to make "status" fast even without
> path limiting with the help of inotify, but that's not going to be
> finished soon. Did I miss anything else?

Chromium developers frequently want to run status over their entire
checkout, and a lot of them run 'git commit -a'.  We want to do
everything possible to speed this up.