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Re: First Git status takes 40+ minutes, when mounting fileystem/diskimage with 50G GIT repo + 900G of builds articles

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 22, 2019, 18:13 UTC
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"Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <sarvi@cisco.com> writes:
> I suspect warming the filesystem caching is in play.
> But so is the fact that walk every tree to find untracked files as well.

Enable the untracked cache and "update-index --refresh", before freezing the repository + working tree state in the diskimage?

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