Re: gitk pays too much attention to file timestamps
From: Avery Pennarun <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:34
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:
gitk is something of a passive observer of the index, which is actually something I like about it. This keeps it relatively fast and can be useful when trying to understand other commands. I am not sure how other people use gitk, though. Maybe this would be worth changing. For a reference point, another command in a very similar situation is ‘git diff’: people who want the speedup from avoiding refreshing the index with that command use
Isn't it kind of weird, then, that it bothers to check the stat information at all? I'm not sure why I'd want to know accurately whether or not my file matches the index, but then have gitk fail to tell me about *what* doesn't match. If it has to check the stat() information anyway, isn't it already being slow? Avery