Re: performance problem: "git commit filename"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 13, 2008, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801130922030.2806@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4s6qal0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> The attached is a quick and dirty hack which may or may not
> help.  It all looks sane, this also is some core code, and meant
> only for discussion and not application.

I don't think this will help.

You never set CE_UPTODATE, except in the "fill_stat_cache_info()" function, but that one will never be called for an old file that already matched the stat.

So at a minimum, you should also make ie_match_stat() set CE_UPTODATE if it matches. Or something.

			Linus

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