Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:20, Finn Arne Gangstad [off-list ref] wrote:

There is one minor nit: The speedup gain is zero :) git still
traverses all directories to look for .gitignore files, which seems to
totally kill the optimisation.

This is very true. In my experience with ginormous trees even if you
'git update-index --assume-unchanged' every file and directory it's
still unbearably slow due to the .gitignore files. Any solution that
aims to solve this problem should also address the .gitignore file
problem. Note: a safe assumption here is that to solve the problem it
needs to work if there are more .gitignore files than regular files
:).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier