Re: 'git status' on NFS performance regression in 1.7.0

James Pickens [off-list ref] writes:

I noticed that 'git status' in version 1.7.0 is much slower than in 1.6.2.5
on large work trees on NFS - averaging ~13 seconds runtime vs. ~2 seconds.
I did a bit of debugging and found that 'git status' apparently doesn't use
the multi-threaded preload_index any more, although some other commands
like diff still use it.  Was it intentionally dropped from 'git status'?

There might be subtle breakage for doing this, but it would be worth a try
;-)

 builtin-commit.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 55676fd..71f81c9 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c

@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ int cmd_status(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (*argv)
 		s.pathspec = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
 
-	read_cache();
+	read_cache_preload();
 	refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, s.pathspec, NULL, NULL);
 	s.is_initial = get_sha1(s.reference, sha1) ? 1 : 0;
 	s.in_merge = in_merge;