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Re: git and binary files

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Jul 28, 2010, 14:29 UTC
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Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org> writes:
> The problem I'm facing is, that 'git status' is very
> very slow. They seem to read through every file in the directory
> tree. Is it possible to tell git to just use mtime/size information for
> an initial guess?

This is what it does by default. You probably need an initial "git status" to be slow to get this information right in the index, though.

Have a look at git-bigfiles too.
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Matthieu Moy
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