Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Untracked cache improvements

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2016, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqoachbgwj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD27rFvCrPPs7q+bve9VoyXcg2bBjkz96VfaUm8TDh4c9w@mail.gmail.com>

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
>> General question after testing UC on a slow network share:
>>
>> time ./git status
>> On branch uc-notifs63
>> Your branch is up-to-date with 'cc/uc-notifs63'.
>>
>> It took 6.27 seconds to enumerate untracked files. 'status -uno'
>> may speed it up, but you have to be careful not to forget to add
>> new files yourself (see 'git help status').
>> nothing to commit, working directory clean
>>
>> real    0m19.159s
>> user    0m0.085s
>> sys     0m0.293s
>> ----------------------
>> Does it makes sense  to hint the user about the untracked cache ?
>
> I don't think it makes sense to hint about it for now.
> When more people will have used it for a significant time perhaps.

Chicken or Egg?

I tend to think updating this message is outside of the scope of your series, but you would not get wider adoption (hence more guinea pigs that 'have used it for a significant time') unless you advertise it, and I agree with Torsten that this is the message that matters most--it is shown when we know we spent a lot of time on what UC is meant to speed up and no other time.