From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:28:18 GMT Subject: Re: Is cogito really this inefficient Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050713135052.C6791@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Russell King wrote: > > This says it all. 1min 22secs to generate a patch from a locally > modified but uncommitted file. No, there's something else going on. Most likely that something forced a total index file re-validation, and the time you see is every single checked out file having its SHA1 re-computed. Was this a recently cloned tree, or what was the last operation you did on that tree before that command? Something must have invalidated the index. Linus