Re: [PATCH v2] dir.c: ignore paths containing .git when invalidating untracked cache

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2018, 08:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPc5daU5qjoKkqTvy-xUUP9VAE5KWy0B+CqpujSrabp8MtzqPg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DYwvNGSWBP-2RNUn9xLBHUGtW1D7EuEYn7q_5f-N9Kvg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I am worried that always doing the right thing may carry performance
> penalty (this is based purely on reading verify_path() code, no actual
> benchmarking). For safety, you can always set safe_path to zero. But
> if you do a lot of invalidation and something starts to slow down,
> then you can consider setting safe_path to 1 (if it's actually safe to
> do so).

Fair enough. Thanks for articulating the reasoning.

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