From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:13:27 GMT
Subject: Re: First Git status takes 40+ minutes, when mounting fileystem/diskimage with 50G GIT repo + 900G of builds articles
Message-ID: <xmqqh869oypk.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <2303C0BB-C532-4560-8BCA-A05DAD97EB72@cisco.com>

"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?