From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:15:22 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Add posibility to preload stat information. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1363781732-11396-1-git-send-email-iveqy@iveqy.com> Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > When entering a git working dir, optionally run a forked process that > stat all files in the whole workdir and therefore loads stat information > to RAM which will speedup things like git status and so on. This is misleading. You just execute the equivalent of `git status` everytime I request a prompt inside a git working directory. And this is if I'm using __git_ps1() to augment my prompt, which I'm not- I use ZSH's vcs_info, which is arguably better. Also, you forgot to say how to turn on the feature. That said, this feature is extremely gross; it thrashes my filesystem and hard drive. Modern software is written to minimize IO, not maximize it! I'm completely against the inclusion of this patch. However, I would not mind a feature that runs `git status` the very first time I enter a git working directory: when I enter my clone of linux.git, it takes my first `git status` invocation a good ten seconds to complete, and we can fix this pretty easily.