From: Roman Sandu <r.sandu@gaijin.team>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:41:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Committing crimes with NTFS-3G
Message-ID: <ffad4f8d-1fd9-4f2b-97c1-937576271a04@gaijin.team>
In-Reply-To: <b282c83c-2fa2-4e8e-b8bf-d42f28c17439@kdbg.org>

 > I suggest that you don't switch OS on a whim and take the 8 seconds
 > delay once when you have to.

I am aware that git will refresh the index every time I switch OSes. 
That is NOT the problem I am having. The index is being fully refreshed 
on *every single* `git status` after I switch to Ubuntu, not just the 
first one!

On 8/30/24 07:58, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 29.08.24 um 22:43 schrieb Roman Sandu:
>> To diagnose the problem, I ran git status with GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE
>> enabled, and what I see is that the "refresh index" region is taking up
>> 99% of the time.
> 
> Of course. The stat information that Git on Linux caches in the index is
> vastly different from that that Git for Windows caches. So every time
> you switch OS, all files appear modified to Git.
> 
> I suggest that you don't switch OS on a whim and take the 8 seconds
> delay once when you have to.
> 
> -- Hannes
>