From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:29:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Message-ID: <vpqwrsf1xz0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikceXUDDDcisnJRzg_i8mbi0TGwGiE5znAaK2aM@mail.gmail.com>

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
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/