Re: update-index --assume-unchanged doesn't make things go fast
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Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
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- Jun 25, 2008, 17:38 UTC
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Avery Pennarun venit, vidit, dixit 25.06.2008 18:44: ...
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> 4) My idea is to eventually --assume-unchanged my whole repository, > then write a cheesy daemon that uses the Win32 dnotify-equivalent to > watch for files that get updated and then selectively > --no-assume-unchanged files that it gets notified about. That would > avoid the need to ever synchronously scan the whole repo for changes, > thus making my git-Win32 experience much faster and more enjoyable. > (This daemon ought to be possible to run on Linux as well, for similar > improvements on gigantic repositories. Also note that TortoiseSVN for > Windows does something similar to track file status updates, so this > isn't *just* me being crazy.)
Looks like users on slow NFS would profit, too. Hate to say it, but hg feels faster on (slow) NFS than git. Yet I use git, for other reasons ;)
Michael